Christmas Festival on Main Street

This was our first ever attempt at a Christmas Festival for our whole church. We were well-pleased with the attendance and it was a good time for our church body to spend some time together at the busy holiday season. Here's the Bethlehem petting zoo.
The Salvation Army provided Christmas music on the mall and it was very good! They really know how to play! It lended a festive atmosphere to the afternoon.
The main attraction was the snow hill put on by children's ministry. A semi-trailer backed onto the sidewalk and a snow-making machine was filled with bags of ice cubes for about an hour. The machine spit out this pile of snow which covered a mountain of hay bales. I believe some of the snow is still out there today 5 days after the festival. Imagine that--the facilities staff had to shovel snow in the courtyard!