Historical St. Nick comes to Grace Hill....

On Thursday, December 9th, historic St. Nicholas came to our church to tell us about himself.  The man who dressed up as St. Nicholas, Stephen M. Crotts, is affiliated with our church and is also a preacher, teacher and author.  He is head of the "Carolina Study Center" that preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ on college campuses in NC, SC, and VA.  He has written many books including, "The Story of Santa Claus" which he presented at our St. Nicholas event at Grace Hill.  The story is about the Christian called Nicholas of Myra, Turkey, who is the source for the legend of Santa Claus.  Regan's class studied St. Nicholas the same week as our church event and Regan's teacher read this same book.  Regan recognized the author's name and came home asking if it was the same person we know.  Sure enough, Regan's teacher had presented, Stephen M. Crotts, story to Regan's class.  So, that was very neat and she invited her class and teacher to come to the event.  Her teacher, Mr. Morganti, was thrilled and was going to come but had car troubles at the last minute and was not able to make it.  Our girls learned a lot about St. Nicholas and Pastor Crotts did a fabulous job presenting the story to the children.   

 Regan and Riley with their friend, Avery, before the event. 

 The children anxiously awaiting St. Nick's arrival.

 Historical St. Nicholas

Everyone was able to get their photo taken with St. Nicholas.