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Christmas
| ID: | 851201 |
| Description: | A husband and wife shop for their son’s Christmas gift from a misplaced and outdated catalog. After a phone call and several transfers within the department store, the husband finally discovers they still carry the item. The wife finally locates the catalog only to discover it was a different item she wanted for her son. Without the right facts and planning, the simplest things are impossible. |
| Category: | Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors: | 2 * |
| Time: | 6 min. |
| ID: | 851208 |
| Description: | Two Christmas trees are in the forest and wishing for a home. One tree believes he has found his purpose in life only to have the adoration fade fast when Christmas is over. Christmas is only of any value if it lives in our lives all year, not just on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. |
| Category: | Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: | 2 * + extras |
| Time: | 6 min. |
| ID: | 851222 |
| Description: | The puzzle that has had a missing piece for years, becomes the centerpiece as two brothers and their wives get together for their traditional Christmas jig saw puzzle party. This triggers one of the brothers to look at the emptiness of his life. You can function in life and still have a missing piece, is that piece Christ? |
| Category: | Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: | 4 * |
| Time: | 4 min. |
| ID: | 861130 |
| Description: | An agreeable but harried clerk is faced with a growing long line of customers while a small boy pays in pennies. The peace of the season seems far away. Peace vs. Anxiety |
| Category: | Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: | 7 * + extras |
| Time: | 7 min. |
SANTA’S CHRISTMAS PRESENCE
| ID: | 861207 |
| Description: | The loneliness that accompanies the Christmas season for a single mother whose son is grown and gone, is broken by another lonely individual who takes the initiative to reach out and touch this women in need. The true power of Christmas is God breaking into our world with His presence. |
| Category: | Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: | 2 * |
| Time: | 6 min. |
| ID: | 871129 |
| Description: | At a shopping mall, Santa brings with him memories of a painful past Christmas to two girls. One of the girls asks her friend to look to the real meaning of the season. It’s not the good or bad human traditions that should shape our view of the miracle of Jesus’ birth. |
| Category: | Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson |
| Actors: | 3 * |
| Time: | 8 min. |
| ID: | 871213 |
| Description: | Along with preparing the Christmas festivities, a family faces the uncertainty of knowing whether or not their Navy son who was dispatched to a country threatened by war, was able to make his way home. The peace of God is most clear and present when we are fearful by the world’s standards. |
| Category: | Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: | 6 * + 1 VO |
| Time: | 8 min. |
| ID: | 871227 |
| Description: | Feelings of inadequacy begin to overcome an old stuffed toy floppy eared dog (with no ears) when he converses with the newer toys which have more ‘bells and whistles’ than he. His disparity is quelled when he discovers that the child he belongs to still loves him for who he is without regard to what he can or cannot do, nor what he looks like. |
| Category: | Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: | 6 * + 1 VO |
| Time: | 7 min. |
| ID: | 881211 |
| Description: | Two friends struggle with the fear of being "sucked in" by the commercialization of Christmas. They are ultimately pulled into the crowd by special announcements of items at bargain prices. We can easily miss the love of God in the birth of His son, when we look at the trappings of the season. |
| Category: | Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: | 2 * + 1 VO, 8 extras |
| Time: | 8 min. |
| ID: | 891210 |
| Description: | In a maternity ward, on Christmas Eve, a father-to-be is so overcome with the excitement of video taping the event that he appears to have lost his grasp of the importance of the event. The doctor, curious of the father’s antics, becomes aware that the father is quite in touch with the significance of the hope this birth means to his family to continue and parallels the event with the birth of Christ which gives hope to mankind. |
| Category: | Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: | 4 * |
| Time: | 10 min. |
| ID: | 891224 |
| Description: | To the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas", a comical rendition utilizing typical holiday gifts (the ones nobody wants to receive) are substituted for the first eleven days, completing with the only gift that matters, Christ as the final gift from God. |
| Category: | Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: | 15 * |
| Time: | 17 min. |
| ID: | 911222 |
| Description: | A customer learns humility in the hubbub of the Christmas rush as he purchases a wedding gift then attempts to have it gift wrapped. The clerks are slow to assist and incompetent to boot. However, after coming to terms with his anger, he reassesses his position and gets a new perspective of the situation. We have to have a heart for God’s perspective even when we have every reason to be angry. |
| Category: | Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: | 3 * |
| Time: | 9 min. |
| ID: | 921220 |
| Description: | The life of Mary, mother of Jesus is portrayed. From the news delivered to her by Gabriel, through the life of the Son, to the death and resurrection of the Son, to her golden years, this drama brings to light some of the emotions Mary may have experienced as the mother of our Lord. |
| Category: | Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: | 1 * |
| Time: | 20 min. |
| ID: | 931224 |
| Description: | A mother had the perfect Christmas planned for her family, down to the carolers and surprise visits, but it begins to unravel. She has lost touch with the deeper meaning of Christmas. Ironically, she has also lost baby Jesus out of the nativity scene. When her young child brings it to her she reacts with an outburst of anger. It is so easy to lose the focus of the true meaning of Christmas. |
| Category: | Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: | 10 * + 2 extras |
| Time: | 10 min. |
| ID: | 931226 |
| Description: | A husband and wife review the demands placed on them at Christmas. These demands keep drawing them away from the family. Some of them are important but can the time lost with children and parents ever be replaced? The final summation: respond to the responsibilities which are far reaching, long term significance. Look to God and He can help you prioritize your life. |
| Category: | Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors: | 2 * |
| Time: | 9 min. |
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