The Services over Christmas were all very special. On Christmas Eve the church was packed and the singing was uplifting. My main reflection from that particular service was that if it was only people from our own congregation who were coming, it would be a very quiet service, as the vast majority present were visitors.
The Christmas morning service is normally a fairly quiet and intimate affair with 70 or 80 present. What a wondeful surprise this year to have around 100% increase in the numbers. People just kept coming and coming. Perhaps this change has something to do with the age profile of our congregation with many from our own congregation swapping watchnight for Christmas day with their young children. It was wonderful to celebrate Christmas morning in the company of so many children and to baptise Gavin William Thompson at the end of the service.
Back to some normality today as preparations need to be made for Sunday morning. There is communion at our first service at 10am. It's proving to be a weekly challenge to find musicians to lead the second service at 11.30am and this week is no different. I'll need to make one or two phone calls about that today.
DM
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