Visitors to Prairie Chapel Church, northeast of Marion, visit with various animals on display Saturday night Dec. 6, as the snow begins to fall.

June Crow-Schrader, right of Marion, helps Marcia Jordan, of Marion, with her headwear.

Visitors take in the live nativity scene with Ryder Blackford, 6, at left, Jayda Bowman and Austin McMahon, all of Marion, playing the roles.

Tessaly Robertson, 16, of Marion, snuggles her Polish rabbit in the nativity.

Leann Bowman, left of Marion, ladles hot chocolate into a pitcher that was served to visitors and church members to keep them warm, as 96-year-old Lois Martin, of Marion, taste tests the next batch.

Church members stay warm and cook hot dogs and hamburgers over a fire.

A car turns off Highway 13 and heads to the nativity along a half-mile of luminaries along Prairie Chapel Rd.

A car turns off Highway 13 and heads to the nativity along a half-mile of luminaries along Prairie Chapel Rd.

Visitors in a car stop to look at the live nativity with Ryder Blackford, 6, at left, Jayda Bowman, Austin McMahon, and Tessaly Robertson, all of Marion, playing the roles.

Visitors to Prairie Chapel Church, northeast of Marion, visit with various animals on display Saturday night, Dec. 6, as the snow begins to fall.