If you go
* What: “His Story” life of Christ pageant.* When: 7 p.m. today, 10:45 a.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday.* Where: Soddy-Daisy First Baptist Church, 10185 Dayton Pike, Soddy-Daisy.* Admission: Free. (Tickets available at Floyd Hardware and Home Folks Restaurant in Soddy-Daisy, Lifeway Christian Store in Hixson and Chick-fil-A locations in Chattanooga and Hixson.)* Phone: 423-332-2814.* Website: www.fbcsoddydaisy.com.
SonRise tickets will beavailable Monday
Collegedale Seventh-day Adventist Church will distribute tickets for its SonRise Resurrection Pageant beginning at 7 a.m. Monday at Hamilton Place, 2100 Hamilton Place Blvd. The walk-through pageant, to be presented Saturday, April 15, depicts Christ’s final days leading to his death and resurrection. More than 500 Southern Adventist University students and church members take part. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Tickets will be available on the second floor in front of the JC Penney store. Tickets are limited to no more than seven per family. The person picking up tickets must be at least 16 years old. A ticket is not required for children 6 or younger. For more information, visit www.collegedalechurch.com/sonrise.
The cast and choir have been practicing since January for the Easter pageant Soddy-Daisy First Baptist Church is presenting this weekend. If all goes as rehearsed, the singers and actors will find their marks, know their lines, deliver moving renditions of songs.
The bigger question is how the four-legged extras will do. But at Wednesday night’s dress rehearsal, the sheep, goats and donkey hit their cues, whether carried in by the pageant’s villagers or bearing the actor playing Jesus.
It’s an ambitious undertaking for the 350-member church, but worship minister Bobby Boutwell says the annual production is a central way for the church “to reach out into our community with a message of Jesus Christ.”