An Amazing Creche Exhibit

 Last Sunday our family visited a creche exhibit in a private home in Midway. The home owners have collected 1000 different creches from all over the world. This exhibit was just 300 of those but it was still huge. They displayed them according to the area of the world they came from. I took a lot of pictures of them to share. I didn't photograph all of them, but I got quite a few.

I loved how each artisan shared according to their language, understanding, and traditions just as God meets each of us at our level, in our language and at our understanding.

These were the miniature creches which they providing magnifying glasses to look at.

A closer look at the beaded figures from Mexico.

In the center of one room, there was a large table with a nativity of 1000 pieces, depicting the whole town of Bethlehem. A few pictures of that follow.

In addition to the sublime, there were also some more ridiculous/whimsical nativities:

OK, back to the regular programming:

The homeowners' grandchildren dressed for the nativity

From Armenia, all carved from one piece of wood.

From Italy

The mask nativity at the beginning

It was amazing. I was so glad to go and hope to go again in future years.