1 December 2012

"We now start one of the Christian year's busiest periods so lots of dates for your diaries:

 Advent Sunday is on 2nd December. The word Advent means 'coming' or 'arrival' and is a time to prepare for the arrival of Jesus as a baby at Christmas. It is a time to start counting down the days until Christmas and we can do this with the help of our Advent sheets once again. Do try and take a few minutes each day to read it and do any of the activities. The theme this year is 'names'.

 We also bless our Posadas and send them on their way around our church families.

 The Christingle service is on 9th December at 4pm. This is also the closing ceremony of the Tree Festival. Please come along and help make the Christingles on Saturday 8th December at 10:30 in the vestry.

 On the 23rd December in the 9:45 service the Vestry Group will perform a short presentation for the congregation. Do join in and come along for a short rehearsal in church at 4pm on Friday 21st December.

 On Christmas Eve we shall have our beautiful Crib Service. This year (due to its popularity last year) there will be two services - 3:30 and 5:00pm.

 The Christmas Day family service is at 9:30am.

 Martha Walke has taken over from Beth on the back page so do look out for this each month. We wish her well in new role.

 Finally, it has been a joy and a privilege to work and worship with you all this year. Thank you for being such wonderful children

and I wish you and your family a very Happy Christmas and a great New Year in 2013.

 Alison x