We Were There, at the Very First Christmas

By Arlene Arends Max

The biblical account of the birth of Jesus can be found in the first two chapters of both Matthew and Luke. In this book, children will get to know some of the people mentioned in these gospels as they tell their own stories. Mary, Joseph, Zacharias, Elizabeth, the shepherds, and others tell of their experiences and feelings at the time of the very first Christmas. Children will enjoy the colorful illustrations and rhyming verses when these stories are read aloud in church or Sunday school programs or in the circle of the family.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543471342

Arlene Arends Max

Arlene Arends Max has combined her love of children, the Gospels, and poetry in writing this book. She has been a teacher for over thirty-five years, the last twenty-six of them in a preschool in New Jersey, where she has enjoyed working with infants and toddlers. Arlene has written poems for her church and for special occasions for many years. This is her third published children’s book. The first is titled Learning to Love Jesus…His Amazing Miracles. The second in this series is Learning to Love Jesus…His Powerful Parables. This book about Christ’s teachings concludes the series. It is dedicated to her dear family, especially to her grandchildren, the source of her inspiration, and to all God’s children in the hope they will grow up loving Jesus.

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