Monday, December 13, 2004
Christmas With Tinney Chapel Children
CHRISTMAS WITH OUR CHILDREN was special at the 2004 Tinney Chapel UMC Variety Show on December 12. Photo by Jason Smith.
A Tinney Chapel Christmas Variety Show
Sunday, December 12, at 6:00 p.m.
Members of Tinney Chapel United Methodist Church staged an old-fashioned Christmas Variety Show at the church’s Family Life Center, Sunday, Dec. 12.
Highlight of the evening was a dramatic presentation, “Christmas At Home,” performed in costume by the Tinney Chapel Children, directed by Heidi Crow, Gabrielle Mattox and Jami Smith. Set decorations were constucted and arranged by gaffers Marcella Salter and Jami Smith. Additional auditorium decorations were provided by Zonnie Griffin and Sherri Brewer. Sound and light were engineered by Clay Spears, with occasional input from Bob Deitering, John Futral and Stacey Stanley.
Children playing various roles included Madison, Kenny and J. T. Crow; Matthew Stanley; Parker, Presley and Peyton Smith; Kailey Hensley, Niles Johnson and Ashley Noble.
Matthew Stanley also performed in a musical duet with his grandfather, George Jordan, known locally as the Tinney Chapel Troubadour.
Madison Crow performed with Matthew Stanley in a duet reading of The Night Before Christmas.
Senior Pastor Rev. Duncan Graham performed a beautiful solo guitar instrumental, What Child is This, in part to confirm that he had indeed learned something from the 20 Lindy Hearne guitar lessons he received as a Christmas gift last year from the congregation.
Other performances in the Tinney Chapel Christmas Variety Show included Pastor Graham's opening prayer, David Stanton's remarks of welcome, Joe Dan Boyd's vocal/guitar medly of White Christmas/The First Noel, David Stanton's heart-tugging parable of "God and Geese" and the entire congregation's rousing rendition of a candlelit Silent Night.
The 2004 Tinney Chapel Variety Show's colorful, attractive program bulletin was conceived and produced by Elaine Knoop. The overall show concept was organized and coordinated by Sadie Jordan, and was facilitated by members of the Tinney Chapel Ladies Group. The production concluded with special presentations, fellowship and finger food refreshments.
Neither a dry eye nor a bah humbug was to be found anywhere on this evening, when the prevailing sentiment was just as Dickens wrote it so long ago for Tiny Tim: "God bless us every one!"
Amen!
