“This will change everything,” people say when something new or dramatic happens in their lives, and often it does just that. How do we tell the story of how the birth of Christ changed things long ago and how it continues to change things? Tell the story backward! Part of the point of The Backward Christmas Pageant is that time doesn’t matter in this story. The birth of a baby two thousand years ago changed everything–God’s grace is timeless. The pageant ends with, “This will change everything.”