Mike Keahbone, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Lawton, told CBN Digital his church normally puts on its annual Living Christmas Tree musical, a massive Christmas show, for one weekend during the holiday season.

But this year, the church's worship pastor, Xavier Abraham, wanted to do something a bit different.

"[He] approached us with the idea of doing it two weekends in a row, and our immediate reaction was, 'No way,'" Keahbone said. "Because it just takes so much to pull this thing together. I mean, you're talking about a 39-foot tree, over a hundred thousand lights, and just the manpower it takes to assemble the tree, the manpower it takes to just perform the performance."

Plus, there's the cast, and the orchestra, and all of the rehearsing. Logistically, Keahbone said a second weekend just seemed like an impossibility — until he thought deeper about Abraham's request.

"What I heard in his heart was that he had really sought the Lord over it," the pastor said. "And one of the things that I challenge our guys to do ... our three pillars are to be Christ led, body engaged, and Gospel-centered, and so I challenge our team all the time — 'Seek the Lord.'"

Once the team started praying about adding another weekend to the production schedule, Keahbone said it became clear it was what God wanted. Suddenly, the pieces started coming together for something truly spectacular.

"As soon as the announcement was made that we were going to be doing two different weekends, there was a man in our church who is retired from the military ... but still serves on a civilian level," he said. "And all of a sudden he started getting phone calls from the chaplains ... asking about the tree."

These chaplains wanted to come to the Christmas show but the original weekend wouldn't work with soldiers' schedules; once they found out there was a second weekend available, momentum began to build. Keahbone said he and his team expected maybe 150 soldiers, but the group just kept on growing.

As a sign of respect, love, and care, the church also wanted to provide a meal to the soldiers attending the second weekend of the show; they even created military challenge coins to gift the soldiers.

Meanwhile, the expected 150 soldiers soon swelled to more than three times that number. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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