'The Story Of Christmas' Gets Charming Remake With Creative Group Of Children

Nov 27, 2020 by apost team

Back in December 2012, a group of children from St. Paul’s church in Auckland, New Zealand put on a skit to tell of the classic in an adorable video titled “An Unexpected Christmas.”

With Christmas less than a month away, people are readying for the festivities by coming up with a shopping list for gifts, setting up the Christmas tree at home, and binging on hallmark movies. Most of us know the Christain tale of the history behind the holiday, but not as many of us have seen it told this way before:

A group of children from St. Paul’s church in Auckland, New Zealand performed a skit to tell of the classic in an adorable video titled “An Unexpected Christmas.”

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The video begins with two little girls dressed up as angels each holding a rod with a hanging gold star. “Have you ever wondered what we might see if we could pull back the curtain of time to that very first Christmas?” said the narrator. “If we could, I imagine the story began in heaven something like this…” Then a black curtain draws open and we are shown a scene that is set in heaven and a little boy dressed as an angel with pretend exhaust pipes attached to his wings. You already know this is going to be good!

“God was looking over heaven’s balcony one day,” read one of the narrators while another voice continued, “Shaking his head at all the wrong things people were doing down on Earth.” The camera zooms close to a kid all dressed up in white playing God, ‘looking down on Earth’ through a telescope.

He goes: “Oh man, this isn’t quite what I had in mind when I created Earth. I feel so far away from my kids down there.” Looking sad, he turns to two of his angels (twins, by the looks of it) and hands one of them a cupcake.

When asked why he feels that way, he tells them: “It’s just hard to be friends with people when you don’t like what they’re doing.” Walking on, ‘God’ says that he thinks it’s “time for us to step in.” And so it begins: the angels gather together with God and proceed with back and forth discussions about what they should do about all of the destruction human beings have caused on Earth.

The scene switches and we see a group of “soldier” angels in the midst of a swordfight training. One of them swoops in with a rope and asks, “Shall we ready the army, Lord? Teach them a lesson?” When God suggests that he is thinking of sending just one person instead of an entire army, two of the angels that had been training in the background pause and exclaim in sync: “One person?!” God tells one angel that the person he will send down to Earth, doesn’t have to be powerful and strong and in fact, the person will be going as a newborn baby.

The angels are skeptical about God’s plan. One angel says it’s “risky” to send a newborn baby as a newborn human is “small and weak.” She suggests if God is going to send a baby, that it might be a good idea to have the baby be born to a “great ruler or a mighty king.”

But God had a different plan: “Actually... I was thinking I could send him to a young peasant girl, whose heart is beautiful and full of courage.” This stumps the angels -- they couldn’t believe that he would pick a young peasant girl to send the baby to! But God tells them that this would not be just any baby, this baby is the “Prince of Heaven in disguise.”

The angels become really excited about it, and they make plans to leave clues for humans to find Jesus and ask God if they could all sing to welcome the baby’s arrival. 

The skit continues as God sends an angel to inform Mary, the aforementioned young peasant girl, that she would have a baby, Jesus, who would help Earth be close to God again.

No longer in heaven, the scene is now set in a stable, where an actual baby plays Jesus. Then we see three kids playing the Wise Men who follow a star (really a boy) right to the stable. And as promised, the angels found shepherds and their sheep to sing to, commemorating the arrival of the Prince. The rest, as we know, is history!

This story doesn’t come close to doing the fantastically adorable play put up by the kids of St. Paul, try watching it without crying or laughing!

If this skit moved you, pass it along to your loved ones to spread the good news and Christmas cheer.