Once Upon a Christmas Light Nativity Play December 13, 2009

FIRST ARMENIAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
430 SOUTH FIRST STREET
FRESNO, CALIFORNIA 93702-1056
TEL. (559) 237-6638 ▲ FAX (559) 237-9526
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Arpi Keledjian
December 6, 2009 Telephone: (559) 431-5594

“ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS LIGHT” OPENS
THIRD WEEK OF ADVENT IN FRESNO

The first Christmas Eve is the subject of the 2009 Children’s Nativity Play at California’s oldest Armenian Church.
“Once Upon a Christmas Light,” a free multimedia pageant, will be presented at Fresno’s First Armenian Presbyterian Church at 4 p.m. on Sunday, December 13, 2009. The play will take place in the Sanctuary of the church campus, 430 South First Street just west of the Historic Huntington Boulevard Candlelight Christmas.
“Once Upon a Christmas Light” intertwines the birth of the Christ Child in Bethlehem of Judea with the work of Stellar, the smallest star in the galaxy. The play features six songs composed by Dr. Michael and Jill Gallina award-winning choral composers whose work has been performed by the Boston Pops and New York Philharmonic and played at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The play will be followed by a pasta dinner in the FAPC Fellowship Hall. Reservations may be made by calling the Church Offices at (559) 237-6638 or e-mailing fapc@fapc.net.
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“Once Upon a Christmas Light” is one of more than a dozen ministry events set for the Congregation’s 112th Advent Season. A complete Christmas Season Calendar is available at www.fapc.net.
Forty immigrants from Marsovan chartered the congregation in a rented Fresno hall on July 25, 1897. The congregation formally joined the family of Presbyterian Churches in October of that same year. The boyhood church of authors William Saroyan and A.I. Bezzerides, FAPC today is a multigenerational evangelical congregation drawn from the Old and New Worlds.
Reverend Mgrdich Melkonian is the Senior Pastor of the congregation, Reverend Aren Balabanian is the Associate Pastor, Shant Barsoumian, M.Div. is the pastoral intern, and Arpi Keledjian is director of the 2009 Nativity play.
FAPC is a member congregation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Armenian Evangelical Union of North America. The 2009 theme of the congregation is “All Things Are Possible with God.”
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