Photo taken 3/1/18 Meeting the man behind the excellent mock up of the Nativity! Bernard
Having visited this Cathedral on 1/1/18 and being so impressed by the joyful angelic lights and the impressive huge mock up of the Nativity, we decided to bring some more friends over for a feast of the lights.
And it was on this visit that we met the man behind this whole mock up!
We had a good overview of his work of love in person. Passionately sharing that it took him about 7 years to build this up and this year was the second year of exhibition. It took him and team about a month just to lay this out for visitors to visit and have a better understanding of the Gospel through this Nativity setting.
And Bernard showed us a different scene of the place when he switched off the room lights! And it was awesome !
We were told that part of the buildings were made of egg trays! And crumpled brown papers made the rocks that surrounded this entire mock up!
Bernard shared even the details of the moving water fountain and the lit up fires and the streams. All a team of labour of love and ideas contributed by others to make this whole mock up an exceptionally wonderfully done up project. To Him be the Glory!
Even the small fruits that were strung up were done meticulously by Bernard's hand of love.
And apparently this is just the second year of the exhibition.
The Nativity set up had almost come to a complete completion after 7 years of labour.
So with that, they did this photo shoot of this entire project and turned the photo into a nice decopauge for sale to interested parties.
(I thought it was through a photo that he did the 3D mock up. But I was wrong on 1/1/18. It turned out to be the other way round!)
Gloria in Excelsis Deo!
We were so fortunate to have met the couple behind this project - Bernard and Marie. It ended our little night outing with the group (whose ages went from 50-60-70 and 90s ) feeling a WOW . We were initially disappointed that the Orchard lit up was already closed and I prayed so hard that Good Shepherd was still lit up! So just before we turned into the Cathedral, we asked the oldies to close their eyes until we drove into the compound where the big lit up angels stood. In fact 2 of the ladies had only one good eye sight. So it was such a joy to see them so thrilled as they opened their eyes! WoW ? WoW ! Wow! Nevermind the shortchanged Orchard lights - this was even better! And they loved the smaller angels too! Ha Ha Ha!
So perhaps we were again late this year for the Orchard light up drive!.
But God is always good! Yes! He is a Good Shepherd indeed! He provided all of us a great night of no rain but a splendid display of His Angelic lights and enabling us to meet the man 'Maker" behind this creative mock up instead. What a joy!
Most importantly, all of us remembered that He is the real Maker of our lives.
The 3D mockup will be taken down and warehoused next Monday. What a waste that it can only be exhibited during this Dec Christmas season due to 'house constraint'. Guess, little red dot is really a land-scarce country. We too have no room to permanently "house" the Nativity scene.
Nevertheless, we shall remember - Jesus Christ, born in a manger , some 2018 years ago. We are the reason why He came.
1 Cor 1:18 "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but to us which are saved it is the power of God"
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