ON THE COVER Jef Rawls portrays Christ in 2018 Mesa Easter Pageant. Photo by Steve Porter.
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ana Harper has always loved the Mesa Easter Pageant staged on the lawn of the Mesa Arizona Temple. After a three-year hiatus due to the temple’s renovation, Harper could not be more thrilled to see the return of what will be a spectacularly revamped pageant. “I remember as a young child looking forward to the Easter morning sunrise pageant,” Harper recalls. The program began as a Sunday morning service featuring seasonal music sung by local choirs. Far from its humble beginnings, this free community event has become the largest annual outdoor Easter pageant in the world. “This is a very different production from its
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humble beginnings as a sunrise service in 1938,” said Jill Adair, communications director for Mesa Temple events. “On that Easter morning, young men and women of the Mesa Maricopa Stake hosted a statewide convention, and the culminating event of this festive weekend was an Easter Sunrise Service on the grounds of the temple. From that time on, it became an annual event
and a beloved community tradition, moving from sunrise to an evening production in 1977.” “There’s a lot of excitement for the pageant,” Adair said. “We’ve had lots of inquiries. People have missed it. They are excited it is coming back. I think with a lot of things you take it for granted until you don’t have it.” Adair said the pageant’s return is also significant Continued on pg. 5
