Neil Allen
How to Focus A Collection
Let's be honest, Nativities come in a wide variety of forms. If you are like most collectors (if there is a category of "Most...
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Neil Allen
- Jun 18
- 2 min
Introduction to Our Speaker in Georgia : Dr. Michael DeSanctis
My Vocation as a Creche-Builder Michael E. DeSanctis, Ph.D. For thirty-five years I served as a professor of fine arts and theology at a...
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Neil Allen
- May 24
- 1 min
UnFoPrae Invitation
I am sending you the invitation to an extraordinary meeting that is being held on the 28th May 2022 online at 17:00 pm (European time) to...
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Neil Allen
- Apr 11
- 4 min
Celebrating Betsy Christenson
When I first met Betsy Christenson I thought she was a one of a kind collector. However, since editing this page and writing blogs, I...
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Neil Allen
- Apr 4
- 2 min
How Can You Help Friends of the Creche?
Our FOTC board met in April and, as expected, one of the business items from a 2 year Covid-19/no in-person convention-annual meeting...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Susan Duke Waters "O Holy Night" art to be featured at FOTC Fall meeting.
The poster Susan Duke Waters printed for her latest exhibit of "Oh Holy Night" shows the amazing detail of her stunning "life size" wire...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 2 min
Friends of the Creche Goes Digital
Catchy title - but not exactly the truth - Friends of the Creche has been digital for many years. Facebook, email, Webpages have been...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Least Expected Nativity Display
If you don't know Helen (FOTC Secretary) and Bill Holder (Nativity enabler) you may not know something rather important about her...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Father Roten (Distinguished Member of FOTC) to speak this Friday via zoom
Forwarded Message First Name: Gloria Last Name: Dodd Email: gdodd1@udayton.edu Subject: Invitation to Fr. Roten's talk on Creches on Dec....
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 1 min
2023 Convention Announcement
Fasten your seatbelts. This is going to be FANTASTIC.
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 1 min
2022 Annual Meeting Announcement: Moore Methodist Museum, November 12
The 2022 annual meeting will be held on St. Simons Island, Georgia at the Moore Methodist Museum/Epworth by the Sea on November 12. The...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Help us Celebrate our 20th Year via Zoom
November 6th - 9 a.m. Pacific Time, 10 a.m. Mountain Time, 11 a.m. Central and Noon Eastern. The link will open 30 minutes prior to the...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Rwanda shepherds
This is a picture of one of the shepherds, hand carved in wood from my Rwanda crèche. I wondered what the pointy thing was sticking up...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 1 min
What Time is it?
What time is it? Look closely at this clock made by Harry Mushenheim. He had an old battery operated clock mechanism and his wife, Ceal,...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 3 min
Volunteers Behind the Scene
Perhaps you were unaware of our 100% volunteer Organization status. Friends of the Creche depends on all of them. Perhaps the most...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 2 min
Portland, Oregon Convention Moves From In-Person to On-line
Dear Friends of the Creche Membership And just when it all looked good…BAM…another wave of Covid-19, this one more ambitious than the...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 2 min
My Nativity Story: Neil Allen (Webmaster)
Usually when you start a story about collecting nativities one starts at the beginning. However, Covid-19 has caused us all to start with...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Make and Take Set for November
Here's a great idea from Kathleen Conrad November 21, 2021 from 1:00-4:00 PM- A Make and Take Tour of the Bethlehem Cave and Nativity...
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