30 feet above our heads. The church had been kind enough to pay for two interpreters so that we could attend and the Deaf loved it because it was so visual. There were about 500 people at the preformance and it was a struggle to get out of the parking lot.
The next day after church while 20 little kids, 3 group home clients and our sunday school teacher were running around dressed as angels with dollar store wings and I was lifting the giant paper-mache' camel head 
that we had rented for our own pagent a wise man behind me voiced "same story! Yesterday!" It sounds silly but that is when it really hit me that we were actually putting on the same story. Granted our story was done in sign language and instead of a real cow had a 40 year old Deaf man walking around giggling and trying his hardest to voice "Moo!" but yes, it was the same story.
Just as the 3 kings and the lowly shephards both visited Jesus in the manger. The mega church and the Deaf, group home, mental hospital patients, visit together also. That really touched me.
By the way, a group from nasville is coming next week to video tape our pagent for a dvd that will be given to UMC sunday school classrooms next year. Look for us under the section of how the Deaf celebrate christmas. peace.
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