I Will Play My Part

By Roddy Hamilton

This traditional Nativity pageant impresses on each and every one watching that we can all simply play ‘our part’ in the ongoing Christmas story.

Preparation: minimum

Cast/Characters: 10 adults/children

• Narrator 1 Prophet 2 – female voice
• Narrator 2 Angels
• Prophet 1 – male voice Shepherds
• Mary Prophet 3 – child’s voice
• Joseph Magi

Scenes: 1 (3pp)

Main Props: bell, manger crib, wooden boxes, headscarves, tinsel halos, crowns/gifts, Christ candle, hand-held candle for characters

Two narrators stand together in an empty space in the chancel or maybe walking down the aisle.

Narrator 1: Here is a story. It is a story about a beginning: the beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ and the wrapping of love in flesh set loose in the world. It is a story that stretches through time, born in our ancient past and yet born anew today.
Narrator 2: The details aren’t always clear for time has grown around the who, what, and when. But the truth is eternal and as sharp as it has always been. For it tells us the wonderful truth of God sharing our lives in the world, and how God chose to do just that.
Narrator 1: It is not just good news for the Christmas season, but for every season.
Narrator 2: It is news whose truth is a good gift for every person in the world and it is true in every place we find ourselves.
Narrator 1: It is for the poor and the lonely, the rich and the full up.
Narrator 2: It is for folk forgotten and ordinary, for seeker and found.
Narrator 1: It is for you and it is for me, it is for everyone here.
Narrator 2: It is good news for us and about us; the good news of God and the love we find alive in Jesus.