The birth of Jesus is being celebrated with drive-through Nativity scenes beginning Saturday.

Rolater Park in Cave Spring will be the first this year to feature the Nativity, being put on by The Empty Tomb, a church that meets at 5 Broad St. in Cave Spring.

Pastor Rodney Willingham said live participants and animals will be featured in scenes from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, with soft holiday music playing in the background.

“It’s a nice little hometown presentation,” Willingham said.

Tonight, the church will also be hosting a Christmas musical at the historic Baptist Church in Rolater Park. The free event will go from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and will feature refreshments afterward.

Trinity United Methodist Church in Rome will begin its live Nativity scene Sunday night, going from 7 to 9 p.m. The scene, set up outside the front of the church on Turner McCall Boulevard, will feature 100 participants from the church along with mostly live animals.

Trinity’s church secretary Terri Epperson said the public will be able to see the Nativity scene throughout the week, ending on Christmas Eve.

North Broad Baptist Church’s co-pastor Katrina Brooks said their Nativity will be Sunday and Monday beginning at 6:30 p.m. The church’s drive-through Nativity features live action of the story of Jesus’ birth.

The Nativity scenes will also feature speaking parts, broadcast at the church to cars on 89.1 FM as they drive through each scene.

“It’s been a part of a gift that North Broad has offered for about 26 years now,” Brooks said.

Pleasant Valley North Church will also host a Nativity drive-through Sunday at 735 Old Summerville Road, featuring music played over loudspeakers and 60 to 75 live actors from the church.

“We’d like a chance for the community to come in and see sights and sounds of Bethlehem 2,000 years ago on that first Christmas night,” said the Rev. Mac McCurry, pastor of Pleasant Valley North.

He said the event will be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the church. It is the third year the church has participated in the nativity drive through.

“It is fun time for our folks but also something the whole community can come and enjoy as well,” McCurry said.

Unity Baptist Church, 2261 Pleasant Valley Road, Silver Creek, will have a live Nativity scene displayed Saturday and Sunday from 5:30 to 8 p.m.