The nativity at Rotorua Hospital chapel has its most important member back – baby Jesus.
Last December hospital chaplain Reverend Ray Bloomfield was taking a service and looked over at the manger and noticed it was empty – someone had taken baby Jesus.
Rotorua Hospital Chaplaincy Trust administrator Alison Lamberton said that after Christmas last year Rotorua woman Heather Horton came to the rescue and contacted them saying she would make a new baby Jesus.
So with the help of her 4-year-old granddaughter, Charlotte Coleman, they set to work making a replacement. The new baby Jesus was presented to Rev Bloomfield this week.