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Building the Story: Getting Creative with Christmas
By
Dan Jacob
November 5, 2026
More than ten years ago I wrote a Christmas pageant called
Kid Jesus Remembers Christmas
based on..
Christmas
,
creative
,
Diversity
,
Jesus Christ
,
Joseph
,
mary
,
birth
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