(KNZA)--The 31th annual “ Festival of Lights” Christmas Luminaries will be held in Horton Sunday evening, December 3rd.

The event, being put on by the South Brown County Ministerial Association, will take place from 5:30 to 7:00.

The Luminaries transform ten city blocks into 17 living scenes of the life of Christ. Men, women and children of the Ministerial Association churches take their places as Bible characters in a setting of live animals, colorful props, costumes and music.

13-hundred candles outline the route, which will begin at the junction of Highways 73 and K-20.

The event draws hundreds of people each year.

A free-will donation may be dropped in a receptacle at the end of the route, which the funds going to support the ministries of the South Brown Ministerial Association.