What's Your Role?

Across this country, in large city churches, suburban churches, and small rural churches, people are preparing for the eventual pageant. Who will be an angel, who will be a shepherd, who will play a wise man, who will be Joseph and who will be Mary? Will the baby Jesus be a swaddled doll or a real child?

Some costumes remain from year to year, others must be replaced-- the shepherds staff broke, the wings of an angel bent out of shape, the leg of a sheep is lost.

And how many children hope that this year they can wear a halo?