I can't believe I am actually asking this question...but I need the name of a christmas movie I watched last year. I keep a TV calendar with all the shows I watch but I cannot find this movie anywhere.

Here is the plot. A man goes to a small town searching for his birth parents. The only clue he has is a photograph of an old church with the city name (in Texas I think) and the year 1963. The towns people are leary of him but he is befriended by a young preacher and his family. The man soon finds out that his birth mother died from injuries sustained from a car crash. His father could not live with the guilt he had from causing the accident so he has sort of "faded away" While searching for answers to whether his birth father is dead or alive, this man becomes intrigued by a hand carved wood nativity scene that sits out in front of the church. The baby Jesus had a place carved into its chest for a small wooden cross which has vanished through out the years and has remained a mystery to the towns folk as to its whereabouts. In fact, even the baby Jesus went missing one year...yes you guessed it, the year this man was born. Seems when his mother was dying from injuries due to the crash she was 9 months pregnant. She wanted to stay alive to see the birth of her son but she was fading fast so her husband brought her the wooden baby Jesus and had it wrapped up so that she would think it was her son. At the very end of the movie when the man is getting ready to return to his home and his wife he makes one last stop at the church. He ends up talking with the old care taker of the church who just happened to be the carpenter who carved the nativity scene. He hands the man a small package - the wooden cross that had been missing all these years - and tells him the story behind the baby Jesus missing. This care taker, was the man's birth father.

Ok you experts - google away!

Georgia, could it possibly be 'Christmas Child'?

Christmas Child is based on 'The Christmas Cross', a short story about a Chicago journalist who finds himself in Texas on Christmas Eve.

Very good Honi. It was Christmas Child and tho filmed in 2003 didn't air until 2006 and that's why I was having trouble finding it. I wondered who would be the one to answer it - you did great!

Glad I could help!!