Christmas | Children | Creche

“Lord…help your servants to proclaim Your Message with all boldness, by stretching out Your hand to heal and to work miracles and marvels through the Name of Your Holy Servant Jesus” (Acts 4:29,30).

“The Boy and the Creche” is the true story of what happened one Christmas Eve in front of the Church of the Holy Trinity in New York City. The story is told by The Reverend Clarke Kimberly Oler who was pastor of the Church at the time:

There he was again. He was barely six years old and wearing his red stocking hat, his face pressed against the iron fence which surrounds the Church of the Holy Trinity garden. It was not unusual for a child so young to be out on the streets alone, and I had seen this little boy before — always wearing the same grimy red hat pulled over his ears, the same old sneakers, the same tattered jacket. Several times I had spoken to him, trying to…

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