In conjunction with Nevada, Iowa’s, A Hometown Christmas on Main, the Seventh-day Adventist Church created a drive-through live nativity last December that looked like a snowy Bethlehem. With help from the Nevada Frogs Pathfinder club and Nevada Christian School, Bethlehem was a real town in Iowa. The stable housed the newborn Babe, watched over by the angels, while a pony and chickens looked on. Cows mooed nearby, and the shepherds watched their sheep and goats.
The Roman soldiers guarded the tax collector, the bread maker, the potter, the weaver and the basket makers, who milled around their tents and the fire pits. The city provided a hayride from downtown, and others drove through or stopped to pet the animals. Each family went home with a copy of Steps to Christ tucked in a bag containing church and school information.
