Christmas Shadow Drama

At the KCS Christmas program the high school students did a Shadow Drama. They created a stage with the white sheet and light in the background and had students read the story while others acted it out.

The photos and the story from Luke 2 and Matthew 2 (Contemporary English Version) are below.

^{Luke 2}

¹About that time Emperor Augustus gave orders for the names of all the people to be listed in record books. ^[a] 2These first records were made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. ^[b] 3Everyone had to go to their own hometown to be listed. ⁴So Joseph had to leave Nazareth in Galilee and go to Bethlehem in Judea. Long ago Bethlehem had been King David's hometown, and Joseph went there because he was from David's family.

 ⁵Mary was engaged to Joseph and traveled with him to Bethlehem. She was soon going to have a baby, 

and while they were there, ⁷she gave birth to her first-born ^[c] son. She dressed him in baby clothes ^[d]and laid him on a bed of hay, because there was no room for them in the inn.

⁸That night in the fields near Bethlehem some shepherds were guarding their sheep. ⁹All at once an angel came down to them from the Lord, and the brightness of the Lord's glory flashed around them. The shepherds were frightened. ¹⁰But the angel said, "Don't be afraid! I have good news for you, which will make everyone happy. ¹¹This very day in King David's hometown a Savior was born for you. He is Christ the Lord.¹²You will know who he is, because you will find him dressed in baby clothes and lying on a bed of hay."

¹⁵After the angels had left and gone back to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see what the Lord has told us about." ¹⁶They hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and they saw the baby lying on a bed of hay.
    ¹⁷When the shepherds saw Jesus, they told his parents what the angel had said about him. ¹⁸Everyone listened and was surprised. ¹⁹But Mary kept thinking about all this and wondering what it meant.
    ²⁰As the shepherds returned to their sheep, they were praising God and saying wonderful things about him. Everything they had seen and heard was just as the angel had said.

Matthew 2

 ¹When Jesus was born in the village of Bethlehem in Judea, Herod was king. During this time some wise men ^[a] from the east came to Jerusalem ²and said, "Where is the child born to be king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east ^[b] and have come to worship him." ³When King Herod heard about this, he was worried, and so was everyone else in Jerusalem. 

 ⁴Herod brought together the chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses and asked them, "Where will the Messiah be born?"

    ⁵They told him, "He will be born in Bethlehem, just as the prophet wrote,

⁷Herod secretly called in the wise men and asked them when they had first seen the star. ⁸He told them, "Go to Bethlehem and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, let me know. I want to go and worship him too."
    ⁹The wise men listened to what the king said and then left.

 And the star they had seen in the east went on ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. ¹⁰They were thrilled and excited to see the star.

 ¹¹When the men went into the house and saw the child with Mary, his mother, they knelt down and worshiped him. They took out their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh ^[c] and gave them to him. ¹²Later they were warned in a dream not to return to Herod, and they went back home by another road.