The community is invited and encouraged to attend a performance of Christmas From Heaven’s View, written and directed by Julia Thyer.
According to Thyer, there will be four shows held at the Hardy Junction Music Hall on Dec. 18 and 20 at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. on both days.
Thyer said the Christmas play is unlike any other and the journey to the creation of the play has been a fast one, but also spirit led.
“The play is about Heaven’s perspective of earth, how angels intercede in our lives; it goes into some things about Christmas now and the way people view it and there is more, but I don’t want to give it all away before the show,” Thyer said.
When asked how the show became reality, Thyer explained it has been a difficult year, but her faith helped her along the way and played a key role in the inception of the play.
“I’ll be 80 in January and for the past few years I’ve taken care of my family. My sister moved to heaven in February of this year and I just felt lost. I talked to the Lord and said ‘I don’t know I I’m too old to serve you or not, but I want to do something to help get souls saved’,” Thyer said. “So, the Lord told me to start a drama team and I said ‘I don’t know how to start a drama team. I’ve never done anything like that’ He said to simply learn.”
Approximately two months ago Thyer said she began to visit various churches requesting to speak to the congregations about what God had told her to do.
“Slowly people started coming to me and it’s been beautiful the way this worked out,” Thyer said. “I thought it was too late in the year to do anything because this happened about two months ago, but then God showed me a vision of God and Jesus talking just before Jesus was born and I was amazed by it.”
Thyer shared her vision with the drama team and they began to work, recreating the vision Thyer had.
“We’ve been rehearsing, we’re not professional, but the whole thing has been an absolute miracle and it’s fascinating the way God has brough this together. We’re excited and planning another for Easter but first, we’d like to invite everyone to the Christmas play, I promise you’ve never seen anything like it,” Thyer said. “There is no charge to enter, any donations we get will go to help purchase costumes and other materials for the next play.”
For more information or to learn more about the drama team, contact Julia Thyer 870-926-9849.
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