St. Mary School students spin a yarn about Christmas

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Students of St. Mary School in Frankenstein entertained friends, families and parishioners on Dec. 5 with a presentation of “A Christmas Yarn.”

The 16 students from the school participated in the musical, with each holding a speaking part as well as singing and dancing.

The musical takes place in a sweater factory — an UGLY sweater factory, to be exact.

Unique Gifts from Luxurious Yarn has a large order to get out by Christmas, but with a storm knocking out the power, the employees learn to overcome the obstacles by creating their own power to run the weaving machines and looms.

The order is not completed on time, but factory owner Samantha Ebenezer determines she gained a greater gift this year than meeting her deadline. She learned of the good news of Christmas.

For the past six years, Audie and Helen Cline have volunteered their time and talent to direct the school play.

Mrs. Cline taught in Frankenstein for the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 school years. During that time, she enlisted the help of her husband, Audie, to direct the play.

Mr. Cline is a retired teacher with time on his hands and happens to love the theater. He has participated in numerous performances with The Little Theater of Jefferson City and Capital City Productions.

After Mrs. Cline’s retirement, the couple gifted the school with their annual assistance for the Christmas production.

Each year, the Clines purchase a play from Little Big Stuff Music for the students to perform.

This year’s selection, “A Christmas Yarn” was a musical created by Steve Moore, Rob Howard and David Guthrie.

Little Big Stuff is a Christian-based church musical publisher for kids with a simple mission, “Help those who work with kids’ music in churches and Christian schools by creating the highest quality musicals that are fun for kids, honoring to God, and bring the life-changing Gospel message of Christ to the community.

“If you want to impact a culture ... start with the kids!” the publisher states.

This year’s performance had a positive impact on the children as well as the adults in the audience.

In addition to the annual play, St. Mary students spend the first few weeks of Advent each year working on a service project. This year, the students chose to support the Good Shepherd Food Pantry.

Students collected canned goods and non-perishable food from parishioners and play attendees.

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