Children's Community Christmas Pageant

Children’s Community Christmas Pageant

Dec. 18, 2022

9am & 10:45am

All children 4 years old to 5th grade can participate in our Children’s Community Christmas Pageant! Upon arrival, families will check in and drop off their children in their usual Sunday morning classrooms so the kids can get into costume. When they finish singing, all children will return to their classrooms with their teachers.

We will be practicing with the children in their Sunday classes each Sunday until Dec.18th. Below are the songs and narrations for the children to practice at home as well as information on when to try out for a solo.

Singers, Narrators & Instrumentalists!

Soloist – 3rd through 5th Grade

Auditions for solos and narrations will take place Sunday, December 5th, during their Sunday classes.
Children wishing to audition for a solo should be prepared to sing a Christmas song (Joy to the World, Away in a Manger, Jingle Bells, etc). (songs below)
Children wishing to audition for a narrator part will be asked to read a short portion of the Christmas story from Luke 2 or they can practice the narrations below.
Parts will be assigned the week of December 6-9.

Instrumentalists – 3rd through 5th Grade

There will also be opportunities for instrumentalists to play during the program.
If you play piano, guitar, flute, violin, kazoo, or any other instrument, we would love to hear you play a Christmas Hymn (Silent Night, O Come All ye Faithful, What Child is This, Come Thou Long Expected Jesus, any Christmas hymn).
Auditions will take place during the week of December 6-9 and can be scheduled by contacting our Worship Pastor, Daniel Creswell, at danielc@northwake.com.

Songs to Practice at Home

Below are the narrations and songs that the children will be doing Sunday, December 19th. The narrations and song solos will be assigned to specific children. To listen to the songs with your children, click the link below the song titles.

4 Year olds – 1st Grade

Joy to the World

VERSE 1:

Joy to the world! the Lord is come

Let earth receive her King

Let every heart prepare Him room

And heaven and nature sing

And heaven, and heaven and nature sing

VERSE 2: Solo

Joy to the world! the Savior reigns

Let men their songs employ

While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains

Repeat the sounding joy

Repeat, repeat the sounding joy

VERSE 3:

He rules the world with truth and grace

And makes the nations prove

The glories of His righteousness

And wonders of His love, and wonders of His love

And wonders, wonders of His love

Away in a Manger

VERSE 1:

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed

The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head

The stars in the sky looked down where he lay

The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay

VERSE 2: Solo

The cattle are lowing the baby awakes

But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes

I love the Lord Jesus, Look down from the sky

And stay by my cradle till morning is nigh

VERSE 3: Solo

Be near me Lord Jesus, I ask thee to stay

Close by me forever and love my I pray.

Bless all the dear children in thy tender care

And take us to heaven to live with thee there

2nd & 3rd Graders

O Come All Ye Faithful

VERSE 1:

O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant

O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem

Come and behold him, born the King of angels

CHORUS

O come, let us adore him

O Come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord

VERSE 2: Solo

Hail, Lord, we greet thee

Born this blessed morning

Jesus, to thee be all glory given

Word of the Father now in flesh appearing

CHORUS (2xs)

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

VERSE 1:

Hark! the herald angels sing

Glory to the newborn King!

Peace on earth and mercy mild

God and sinners reconciled!

Joyful, all ye nations, rise

Join the triumph of the skies

With angelic host proclaim

Christ is born in Bethlehem!

Hark! the herald angels sing

Glory to the newborn King!

VERSE 2: Solo

Hail, the heaven-born Prince of Peace!

Hail, the Son of Righteousness!

Light and life to all he brings

Risen with healing in his wings

Mild he lays his glory by

Born that man no more may die

Born to raise the sons of earth

Born to give them second birth.

Hark! the herald angels sing

Glory to the newborn King!

VERSE 1

4th – 5th Grade

Go Tell It On the Mountain

CHORUS:

Go tell it on the mountain

Over the hills and everywhere

Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born

VERSE 1:

While shepherds kept their watching

O’er silent flocks by night

Behold throughout the heavens

There shone a holy light

CHORUS

VERSE 2: Solo

The Shepherds feared and trembled

When lo above the earth

Rang out the angels chorus

That hailed the Savior’s birth

CHORUS

VERSE 3: Solo

Down in a lowly manger

The humble Christ was born

And God sent us salvation

That blessed Christmas morn

CHORUS

Silent Night

VERSE 1:

Silent night, Holy night

All is calm, all is bright

Round yon virgin, mother and child

Holy infant, tender and mild

Sleep in heavenly peace

VERSE 2: Solo

Silent night, Holy night

Son of God, love’s pure light

Radiant beams from thy holy face

With the dawn of redeeming grace

Jesus, Lord at thy birth

VERSE 3:

Silent night, Holy night

Shepherds quake, at the sight

Glories stream from heaven above

Heavenly, hosts sing Hallelujah

Christ the Savior is born

Narrations

Here are the different narrations that the narrators will be reading on Sunday, December 19th. If your child would like to be a narrator, they can practice and have these ready for try outs on Sunday, December 5th.

Narration 1

“In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken throughout the whole roman world this was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone went to his own town to register. So Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in clothes and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the Inn.”

Narration 2

“And there were Shepherds living out in the fields near by keeping watch over their flocks by night. An Angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shown all around them and they were terrified. But the Angel said to them, “Do not be afraid! I bring you good news of Great joy that will be for all people! Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord. This will be sign to you. You will find the baby wrapped in clothes and lying in a manger. Suddenly a great company of Heavenly Host appeared with the Angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the Highest! And on earth Peace to men, on whom His favor rests.”

Narration 3

“When the Angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has told us about.” So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph and the baby lying in the manger, when they had seen him they spread the word concerning what they had been told about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds had said to them, but Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The Shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things they had seen, which was just as they had been told.”

Narration 4

“And this Christmas we gather together with the same joy as did the shepherds, angels, and wise men, because we celebrate the birthday of a King. Born King of Angels, He came to earth and became our brother, taking on our skin, and bearing our burden. Christ the Savior is born and today we gather to adore Him!”