Our drama ministry started in the basement of the parsonage with a group of men and their love of Christ and theatre in 1999 and is a thriving ministry in our church today.

Michael Crandall and Donna Pieffer decided to write an original passion play with music for the drama ministry in the late 90’s and their result was the Cradle to the Cross. It was first performed in its entirety in 2001. In 2006 parishioner Deaette Coudriet became the director until 2024

 The Cradle to the Cross now has an average cast of 70 people from our congregation, many area churches and the community. The common desire of the cast is to spread the wonderful message of God’s love through the birth, death and resurrection of his son Jesus Christ.

In 2004 we began to explore other ways to spread the message of Christ to our community.  With a small group of actors from the Easter passion play we created Gethsemane Players and performed our first Mystery Dinner Theatre “Murder, Mayhem and Marshmallow Salad” in 2005. 
Our church is truly blessed to have such an array of actors who want to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ in the Easter passion play.  If you feel led, or like being on stage or behind the scenes please contact Georgette Eirich to be a part of this exciting ministry.