MOUNTAINTOP HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA IN WINDHAM - Living Faith Community Church Taps Area Talent

Written By The Mountain Eagle on 1/2/25 | 1/2/25

Leona Chase, with her guitar and soft voice, took listeners to a place far “Away In a Manger.”

Living Faith Community Church worship team was the host band for the show, singing praise and thankfulness.

Sisters Jade and Sophia Ryan (left to right) appropriately performed a version of “Sisters” brimming with pizzaz.

Two talking heads were better than one - and more fun - for the audience as Ruthie Welch and her wood and plaster-of-Paris puppet “Donnie” brought their highly entertaining ventriloquism act to the event. Ruthie’s maiden name is Vining, attending Living Faith Community Church as a child, growing up in the hamlet of Maplecrest and graduating from Windham-Ashland-Jewett school in 1977, now working as a nurse and living in Coxsackie.