Season of Joy

Drama 1 These Things Belong to Christmas For Advent or Christmas Eve By Emmeline S. Miller and Char Schultz Drama 2 Three Gifts Of Love For Advent Or Christmas Eve By Linda Aranda Season Of Joy offers two short, easy-to-produce plays for the season of Advent-Christmas-Epiphany. "These Things Belong to Christmas," suitable for Advent or Christmas, offers five scenes in modern-day settings with parts for youths and adults. It also includes a one-scene monologue by the prophet Isaiah. The play provides an order of service with four suggested Advent-Christmas hymns. Performance time is 20-25 minutes. "Three Gifts Of Love," a play in two acts, is appropriate for Christmas or Epiphany. Its setting is the time of Jesus' birth. The play's focus is on the pilgrimage of the three Magi. Parts are for two women and nine men. The play's performance time is 25 minutes. Emmeline S. Miller and Char Schultz, lay members of Church of the Master (United Methodist), Westerville, Ohio, co-authored "These Things Belong To Christmas." Linda Aranda, resource consultant and drama director of John Knox Presbyterian Church, Florissant, Missouri, wrote "Three Gifts Of Love."