Preparing for Christmas…. Blessing of the knitted angels, angel bombing, making Christingles, Christmas coffee morning.
Preparing for Christmas – Photos
Daily Meditations for Advent
The season of Advent is traditionally the time when we prepare to celebrate the coming of God as a human, and to look forward to Jesus coming to renew all creation, as well as the renewing of our hearts today by the Holy Spirit. As an aid to this, I am offering a Contemplative Advent […]
Keep Awake! New Advent Resource
The Rev’d David Coleman, Chaplain for Eco-Congregations, Scotland, has prepared a visual Advent Calendar with a short 90 second reflection for every day of Advent. Lots of wonderful videos of Scottish scenery and wildlife! You view them all as they are published, here: https://www.ecocongregationscotland.org/advent-keep-awake/
Christmas Angels Have Landed
What a bumper crop of knitted Christmas angels arrived in Fleet this week! After a blessing at Crookham Baptist Church last Sunday, the angels landed in Hart Shopping Centre today, and were offered freely to passers by. What an array of colours, shapes and sizes there were! A limited number will also be available in […]
Blue Christmas
Christmas is not always as easy for everyone as we might think, and many will find it particularly difficult this year. If you, or someone you know, might find it helpful to acknowledge this and seek solace in worship, then a Blue Christmas service which offers time for the sad, confused or unhappy to reflect […]
Advent 4: A Service of Readings and Carols
Sunday Worship for 20th December 2020 – A Service of Readings and Carols Today, the fourth Sunday in Advent, we welcome you as Karen Smith and Tom Dean from Beacon Hill URC lead us in a Service of Readings and Carols and the lighting of the fourth candle on our Advent wreath. We gather together […]
The God Who Comes to Us (Faith & Life Podcast #25)
In this week’s podcast Ruth reflects upon the God who comes to us, and our response.
Advent Activities for the Young and Not-So-Young
When the end of term comes, there’s no need for the children to be bored while they’re waiting for Christmas! Here are lots of Advent activity suggestions for the young and not-so-young: Nick the Vic has produced some lovely videos called Stories of Hope, featuring Nick and his puppet friends, Sooty and Sweep. Two new […]
Advent 3: Christingle Service
Sunday Worship for 13th December 2020: Christingle Today, the third Sunday in Advent, we continued our journey ‘On the Road to Bethlehem‘ in our Christingle service led by Lay Preacher, Karen Smith, with the lighting of the third candle on our Advent wreath, as it visits different homes in the church community. We had great […]
Preparing the Way (Faith & Life Podcast #24)
In Ruth’s latest podcast she thinks about John the Baptist and how we are called to prepare the way for Christ’s coming in other people’s lives.