Once again the church was full for our Remembrance Day service after the ceremony at the war memorial, which Jeremy led so well (check out the pictures). It is always good to see the military personnel bringing their families along as part of their commitment to remembering those who gave their lives in conflict, so that we would remain a free nation. Many thanks to the gardening team who made the churchyard look so good for this special day and of course to Jeremy for co-ordinating and leading the service for us.
I hope most of you managed to come to the Christmas bazaar last weekend (check out the pictures) – we certainly had lots of people enjoying the mulled wine as well as the delicious cakes provided. On these occasions it is so lovely to see people getting together and your generosity in buying gifts and produce has enabled us to raise over £700 for our funds. Thank you Wendy and Doreen for many hours of organising this great event and many thanks to all those that helped set up and ran stalls.
This year Rev Barry has asked us to join in with hosting the Posada box, which contains a tableau of the nativity. The idea is that it will journey round the village from house to house ending up in the church on Christmas Eve. If you would like to join in, there is a form on the font to add your name and which day you would like to have it and if you could do that by the start of Advent on Sunday that would be great. Although we don’t often have any of our village children in church, this is just the thing for families to enhance the message of Christmas so do get in touch if you’d like to know more.
We do hope that you will all be able to join in the fun on Saturday 21st December at 5 p.m when Santa Claus will be stopping off at St Mary’s Grotto before he starts his Christmas Eve marathon. Unfortunately Gary can’t be with us this year but Rev Barry is helping us with carols and readings by the children and as always the BBVA will be serving mulled wine and mince pies.
And I hope you can join us for our Christmas Eve Communion service which will start at 10 p.m. and will be led by Rev Barry. As our next newsletter is at the end of December I will sign off by wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!