MANDEVILLE – Deacon Pat Hayden of Mandeville Baptist Church is a shepherd of sorts. It is his job to round up sheep, donkeys, goats and maybe a calf or two for the church’s annual Christmas live nativity each year.
But he doesn’t do it with a rod and staff. Hayden is the animal facilitator who arranges, by phone, for the mini-herd to be delivered from farms as far as 50 minutes away to the nativity scene on the church property for three afternoons in December. The full content of this page is available to Baptist Message subscribers only.