Celebrating 40 years of Rhema Christmas Lights

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TULSA, Okla. — Millions of lights are brightening up Broken Arrow successful clip for the vacation season.

Rhema's Christmas show had its light-up ceremonial footwear disconnected connected Wednesday, making this twelvemonth its 40th twelvemonth of this tradition.

The country is afloat of lights, smiles, and plentifulness of families that travel retired to person a bully time.

"I emotion it!" says Caleb Buckner Gil, an attendee.

Bigger, brighter, and better. That's however Rhema Bible Church kicked disconnected the vacation play connected the time earlier Thanksgiving.

“The crushed we bash it is due to the fact that our pastor, Pastor Hagan, helium wanted to amusement that Jesus is the airy of the world. What a amended mode to bash that is to amusement that Jesus is the airy of the satellite and putting connected a clump of Christmas lights which correspond Jesus and going retired to our world, which is the Broken Arrow community,” says Skylar Hagin, Christmas Light Supervisor astatine Rhema.

For 40 years, Rhema's Christmas airy show has been brightening the holidays and bringing joyousness to hundreds of families, sparking the vacation tone with its colorful lights.

“God is each implicit the place, there’s conscionable a batch of lights, it’s conscionable the beatified tone that fills the place," says Gil.

Organizers accidental the contented started with 60 1000 lights and implicit clip it has grown. This year, Rhema Park and the religion field are covered successful astir 3 cardinal lights, each of them LED.

“Yeah! And I’m arsenic blessed arsenic ever," exclaims Gil.

Gil is 8 years aged and helium and his household person been coming ever since helium tin remember.

“I’ve been present since I was 2 oregon three.”

For him, the acquisition is much than conscionable a wintertime wonderland. Gil is besides grateful for the magic of the play and helium wants others to consciousness it too.

“It truly is God successful the aerial filling each of our hearts with joyousness and emotion and peace," says Gil. "Be Blessed. Be honest. Be you... and bye!"

Lights astatine Rhema volition beryllium connected from 5:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. from Thanksgiving Day until January 2.

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