Every few years, Hawkins UMC's gift to the community is the production of The Christmas Post.
The Christmas Post is fast and fun. But underneath it all is the consistent message that faith in Christ is what makes Christmas real. Without
faith, there is no Christmas, and without Christmas, there is no Cross. As Brother Sam says near the end of the musical, "Christmas is just
the beginning."
The Christmas Post
A Dramatic Musical by Deborah Craig-Claar and Robert Sterling
Admission is FREE
Canned food for local food banks accepted
When:
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 7 pm
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 7 pm
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 2 pm
Where:
Hawkins United Methodist Church
Abundant Life Center
3736 Halls Ferry Road
Vicksburg, MS 39180
Directions from Interstate 20:
Take the Halls Ferry Road Exit from I-20 and go south on Halls Ferry Road approximately 1 mile to the church. Hawkins Church will be on your right.
Contact Information:
Cheryl Montgomery, Director, The Christmas Post
601-636-2242 (church phone)
msherl2us@yahoo.com (e-mail)
www.hawkinsumc.com (web address for church)
Norman Rockwell
The production brings to life two of Norman Rockwell’s famous covers of The Saturday Evening Post: Hattie McGee’s newsstand and an exhausted
Alice Garfield at the end of a busy Christmas shopping day.
Synopsis of the play:
It’s early on Christmas Eve, 1947, in mythical Homesboro, Indiana. Hattie McGee’s newsies are hawking the morning edition of The Christmas Post and
Hertzog’s Department Store is about to open. Maxwell Seldon, sales manager, is bracing for his biggest sales day ever. Elliot Herzog, Jr., owner of
Herzog’s, can smell money in the air. Bother Sam and his carolers from the tiny Central Avenue Church are hoping for enough donations to keep their
soup kitchen open. And Alice Garfield is on a collision course with a disaster. A young WWII widow whose faith and pocketbook are both stretched to
the limit, Alice is desperately trying to find “a little more Christmas” as a commission salesperson at Herzog’s this Christmas season. (Unbeknownst
to Alice, her daughter, Katie, is secretly attempting to find “a little more Christmas” for her mother by working in disguise as one of Hattie’s
newsies.) However, as the day goes on, Alice finds herself short of the funds needed for that one special present for each of her two children.
Then in a good-hearted attempt to help a late-arriving customer, Alice re-opens the store - only to have an uncontrollable mob of shoppers suddenly
and disastrously descend on her from everywhere. When the dust settles, Alice has lost her job, all of her Christmas earning and is struggling with
the last bit of faith she has left. But a last minute “miracle” helps Alice recognize that she has been focusing on her problems instead
of God’s promises. As the last strains of music close the show, Alice rediscovers that faith in Jesus is the true key to believing in
Christmas and to finding happiness in life.
