On the last Sunday before Christmas 1983, the members of Oak's First Community Church held a rather unconventional Christmas program. That was not unusual for the church under the leadership of Pastor Henry Knotts. The year before the program was built around the showing of photographic slides taken in 1943. In 1983 the program was held in the basement of the church which had been decorated to resemble Bethlehem at the time Jesus Christ was born.

The congregation gathered in the sanctuary as usual where the pastor began the program by asking them to think back to what it was like in Bethlehem...