{"id":62294,"date":"2025-12-16T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62294\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:42:11","slug":"one-starry-night-takes-visitors-back-to-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62294\/","title":{"rendered":"One Starry Night takes visitors back to Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nMADISON COOK<\/a>
For The Portland Sun
\"\"Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus greet visitors to One Starry Night. MADISON COOK\"\"The manger in which baby Jesus lay can be seen during the One Starry Night program. MADISON COOK\"\"Oasis Seventh-day Adventist Church, site of the One Starry Night program. MADISON COOK\"\"A donkey like the one Mary would have ridden into Bethlehem waits to see visitors in the petting pen at One Starry Night. MADISON COOK\"\"Visitors to One Starry Night work on various crafts. MADISON COOK\"\"Part of the petting pen at One Starry Night. MADISON COOK\"\"Visitors to One Starry Night work on various crafts. MADISON COOK\"\"One of the craft stations at One Starry Night. MADISON COOK\"\"Visitors to One Starry Night work on various crafts. MADISON COOK\"\"Visitors to One Starry Night work on various crafts. MADISON COOK\"\"Visitors to One Starry Night work on various crafts. MADISON COOK\"\"Visitors to One Starry Night walk through the various stations. MADISON COOK\"\"Visitors to One Starry Night walk through the various stations. MADISON COOK\"\"Visitors to One Starry Night walk through the various stations. MADISON COOK\"\"Visitors to One Starry Night work on various crafts. MADISON COOK\"\"Oasis Seventh-day Adventist Church, site of the One Starry Night program. MADISON COOK<\/p>\n

The Oasis Seventh-day Adventist Church held its annual\u00a0\u201cOne Starry Night\u201d program on Dec. 5-6, where guests were transported back in time to a Bethlehem village and marketplace. Visitors could roam freely, creating crafts, trying foods, making instruments and more.<\/p>\n

There were several shops to visit, each offering its own craft or hands-on activity where children and their families could customize items to their liking. Some of the shops included carpentry, calligraphy, jewelry, metal crafts, stamping and weaving.<\/p>\n

Other activities at the event included a petting pen and the\u00a0Three Kings Escape Room. The Nativity Scene was the first stop with a live Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus.<\/p>\n

The event has become a favorite Christmas tradition in Portland, with hundreds attending over the two nights to make memories with their children.<\/p>\n

Event director Rita Taylor told\u00a0The Portland Sun, \u201cWe enjoy doing this for the community! Seeing the children enjoy themselves and be interactive makes it all worth it!\u201d<\/p>\n

She went on to say that \u201cwith each year, the event gets a little better, a little bigger, and the lines get a little longer thanks to our committee of wonderful people \u2013 Dan and Denise Tonn, Diane and Matt Medanich, Jamie and Chris Gregory and John Taylor \u2013 who help bring this special night to life!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON COOKFor The Portland SunMary, Joseph and baby Jesus greet visitors to One Starry Night. MADISON COOKThe manger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-62294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}