All the co-conveners of the Manifest Creative Arts Festival have contributed creatively to their local church’s Christmas services.

The live nativity scene at Lakeside Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Christmas service. Credit: Sylvio Michel.

Nathan Brown wrote a short story that featured as part of the service at Warburton Seventh-day Adventist Church in Victoria.

Joanna Darby created this painting for the Wallsend Seventh-day Adventist Church in New South Wales.

And Brenton Stacey helped plan a service at Lakeside Seventh-day Adventist Church in New South Wales that saw members of the congregation join a live nativity scene and light candles to signify their commitment to worship the King.

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Brenton Stacey

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Brenton Stacey

Brenton is Avondale University’s Public Relations and Philanthropy Officer. He brings to the role experience as a communicator in publishing, media relations, public relations, radio and television, mostly within the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific and its entities.