Here are the Wednesday Ten O'Clockers enjoying a convivial cuppa after the service yesterday. They look very well-wrapped up, but we think the heating was on!
Today we welcome Years 1 and 2 from Rectory Farm Primary School to 'Experience Christmas' together with pupils from Billing Brook School.
Space 4 in 'Experience Christmas' takes us into the shepherds' camp on a Bethlehem hillside shortly after the angel has visited them. They've upped and gone into town to see the baby. That double experience of encounter changed the lives of these ordinary people. How has encountering Jesus changed us?
In Space 5 the children travel the rocky road to the inn and stable with Mary and Joseph. God is with us on our difficult journeys too. As the children think about tricky situations they may be facing, they write their name on a stone, and place it on the cairn, asking God to be with them as they travel.
Blessed are you, sovereign Lord, God of our ancestors:
to you be praise and glory for ever.
You called the patriarchs to live by the light of faith
and to journey in the hope of your promised fulfilment.
May we be obedient to your call
and be ready and watchful to receive your Christ,
a lamp to our feet and a light to our path;
for you are our light and our salvation.
Blessed be God for ever
Amen.
Of every age and race, with all our different energies and gifts, we are all part of the 'Body of Christ'. Today, as on every Thursday, the residents of St. John's Home have a chance to share communion together. As they pray for us, so we will pray for them. If you'd like to know more about St. John's, please talk to Sue Pinington.
Don't forget Advent Soup : Saturday 3rd December: 12 noon in the church hall. Save yourself the trouble of making lunch between bouts of Christmas shopping. Join us for food and conversation, and give to a good cause.
P.S. Meteorologically speaking, it's the first day of winter today, being December 1st. As far as the blog is concerned that means that the individual entries for November will show as archived on the right hand side of the page. But if you want to read earlier posts, just keep scrolling down from today, and eventually you'll get back to Saturday, when we started: it's just the way these things work! The last shall be first, and the first last...
A picture to think about...
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