Members of the Seattle Revival Center on the Newcastle-Renton border are making their first ever Christmas movie, called “God’s Greatest Gift.”

The movie has a cast of mostly children with a few adults and tells the Christmas story through the eyes of a little girl, as narrated to her by her grandfather. It’s a musical, or cantata, a narrative piece of music.

The community and congregation is invited to the movie premiere at 7 p.m., Dec. 19. There will be a red carpet reception for the actors, popcorn, candy and hot chocolate. Admission is free.

The screenplay was written by Seattle Revival Center Pastor Darren Stott. As a kid, Stott grew up making movies with his best friend and dreamed of one day attending the prestigious New York University’s film school. When it came time for college applications, he didn’t quite have the grades to attend NYU and instead went to a community college and got called into ministry.

Fast forward to a year ago, and Stott found himself thinking about his missed opportunity.

“The Lord kind of spoke to me and said, ‘When you were in high school, you let a dream die, but that dream doesn’t have to die; I put that in you,’” said Stott.

That’s when he got the idea to turn their usual Christmas cantata into a movie.

“It’s like taking that Christmas cantata sort of thing, but having more fun and being more creative in creating kind of an experience people will be able to relive over and over, just by putting a DVD in their DVD player,” said Stott.

About 35 people are involved in the project and all the child actors are from the congregation and range in age from 2 to 11.

When asked if it was tough directing the kids, the pastor smiles.

“Not really because we’re not trying to get something that’s perfect,” he said. “We’re trying to get something that’s cute.”

The director said he’ll take cute over perfect any day and that’s what he got when one of the sheep just stood up and walked away, a child was crying in the background or a parent was chasing a sheep, this all while filming.

“When the kids are just being kids it actually makes it more fun to watch and you just can’t help but giggle and chuckle at some of the different scenes and how they play out,” he said.

For Stott the experience was like a dream revisited.

He said “it seems like everybody has dreams but a lot of people are afraid to express them and so they let their unspoken dreams die in isolation.”

Stott encourages everyone to write their dreams down and share them with people they love and trust “because in community dreams can become a reality.”

For more information on the movie, visit the church’s website at www.seattlerevivalcenter.com.