Scoop Images: Celebrating Jesus's 200th Birthday
Monday, 6 November 2000, 12:49 am
Article: Alastair Thompson
Celebrate Jesus 2000 saw 30,000 Christians from around New
Zealand gather at the WestpacTrust Stadium in Wellington on
Saturday. Scoop was on hand to capture the spirit of the
occasion.
A ticket to Jesus's 2000th
birthday celebrations....
Birthday guests from Titahi Bay
The crowd arrives...
The crowd warms up with a
Mexican wave...
Church representatives from 15
denominations process into the stadium...
A young birthday
guest from Berhampore...
It is sundown as the crowd
leaves to go
home...
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.