Meet the North Carolina Man Who Has Collected 600 Nativity Scenes

— -- Rodney Gore of Tabor City, North Carolina, is inviting people to see the 600 nativity scenes he has collected in the past 30 years.

“Like the shepherd said, ‘Let’s go to Bethlehem and see,’" he told ABC affiliate WWAY-TV in Wilmington.

Gore, 73, just asks that people interested in seeing his museum call his florist shop first to set up an appointment.

The florist is using his home, carport and shed to help display the figures, which are made of everything from brass to wood.

“My family always fusses, ‘You’re buying too much,'" he told WWAY.

But the nativity scenes are an expression of his faith, WWAY reported. “I can never show enough love because without love, I have nothing,” he told the affiliate.

Several church groups have come to admire his work within the past couple weeks.

“I was just overwhelmed,” visitor Elizabeth Ehelers told the station. “It just was just beautiful.”