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Every year I gather my flock and head down highway 25 south
to Delta MO to visit Bethlehem Village of Hope at the First Baptist Church of
Delta.
Several years ago, I stumbled across an ad in local paper
for this event and it caught my eye, so I told my Mom that I was taking her
there for her birthday, well she went along, as she really had no choice. Then the next day she went back taking a dozen
or so people with her, and we all have returned year after year.
The First BaptistChurch of Delta, MO builds a small replica of Bethlehem, and what it might have
been like the night that Jesus was born.
As you enter, you will receive a bag of shillings, with the bag of shillings,
you are to pay your taxes upon entering the city, then you have money
(shillings) to buy trinkets and treasures from the local Bethlehem merchants, and
of course, as you are leaving the city you pay your respects to the Newborn
King Baby Jesus. While Jesus is cute and
the reason for the season, D-man insists I tell you that you get to pet the
sheep, the donkey, and see some camels.
