For more than 50 years, Christmas in the Hill Country has meant Johnson City First United Methodist Church’s Living Nativity Pageant. In that time, the pageant has grown from a cluster of costumed characters trying to keep warm while waiting for a car to pass their static display, to today’s light-and-sound show with the covered basketball pavilion turned into a theater for a cast and crew of dozens...including live animals. “Pulling together that many performers for five shows over four ...