The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever is proof that our best stories are redemptive tales where things go insanely wrong before somehow they are righted. The story concerns the notoriously rowdy Herdman children and their unlikely encounter with their little country church.

Ten-year-old Zander Wright decided to help others who needed help in the wake of the devastating forest fires that came close to Conception bay, N.L., by utilizing a unique skill—playing the accordion.

A Salvation Army church in Angola was in need, and a Salvation Army church in Toronto answered the call. “We need to put faith into action, and that is what we did at East Toronto for our brothers and sisters in  Angola,” says the pastor, Lieutenant Patrick Penton.