To say the hallways of Emmaus Lutheran School reflect the season of the year is an understatement.

Christmas trees trimmed to their tips shimmer and twinkle with lights as garlands, bows, ribbons and the figures of Wise Men silently greet visitors and students.

The school office and pastor's office have also been decorated.

Lisa Terrell, enrollment counselor, says it is the kind of display you wouldn't normally see in a public school or in many private schools because of the cost and rules against religious displays.

Terrell and the school have been lucky enough to have two volunteers, who over the past eight years at the new school at 8626 Covington Road, and before, in the older school on Broadway, have gone above and beyond the norm.

Marti and Dick Evans, retired founder of Evans Toyota, are long-time supporters of the school and church. Their two sons, now 38 and 43, are alumni, and somehow the Evanses just stayed and continued to give their time and share their good fortune with the school.

It started with doing the lighting and stage sets for the school's biblical musicals 20 years ago. Dick handles the lights and props, while his wife makes the costumes. Dick helped design a stage system using 52 pulleys for backdrops and scenery at the new school.

Once the school moved into its new building, Marti really began to decorate for Christmas. There is a room at the school where her trees are stored the rest of the year.

“To me, volunteering is a job. If I say I am going to be there, I will be there,” she said with a smile.

Terrell says the Christmas decorating has grown every year.

Marti starts the day after Thanksgiving and continues up through the Christmas pageant. Around Jan. 6 she will remove the Christmas decorations and give the display more of a winter theme with snowflakes.

“I love doing this. The school doesn't tell me what to do; they just let me decorate it the way I like,” she said.

“Kids who have siblings here and go to public schools come in here and just say, ‘Wow,'” said Terrell with a laugh, adding, “I understand she doesn't even have her own Christmas stuff at home.”