There will be lots of holiday entertainment in Jefferson this Sunday at the fifth annual Heart of Iowa Habitat for Humanity Nativity Festival.

Associate Director Jeff Lamoureux says the event starts at 3pm with public displays of nativity scenes at the First United Methodist Church. There will even be a silent auction for some of the nativity sets, plus a one-of-a-kind children’s rocking chair.

Musical entertainment will begin at 3:30pm with the Town and Country Band performing holiday favorites, along with a brass group from the Central Christian Church of Jefferson. The Greene County Singers perform next, which Lamoureux points out is one of the main highlights of the event.

“They actually got their start last year at our nativity festival. Chuck Offenburger, who is on our volunteer committee for the nativity festival, had this idea of bringing singers together from the different churches all in one mass choir. They’ve continued to meet and are kind of similar to the Town and Country Band, but singers.”

Prairie Blue Creative Arts Dancers will also perform, along with the Praise Powered Trio from Rippey, St. Joseph Guitars from St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Jefferson, Joyful Noise women’s choir from the First Presbyterian Church in Jefferson, the Central Christian Church adult choir, a piano solo by Char Schmertmann, a duet from Michael Kennedy and Nadia Fisher, a brass ensemble and a reading of an original poem by Tori Riley.

Following the concert will be a soup supper and pie auction around 5:15pm.

All proceeds will go back to local projects in Greene County for Heart of Iowa Habitat for Humanity.