Our next
Christmas activity has been our gift service, today, when the congregation was
encouraged to give gifts to people whose Christmas might otherwise be rather
spartan. After contact with local women’s refuges and mother and baby hostels
he got a list of children likely to be there at Christmas and the congregation took away
gift tags with the child’s sex and age. They then went away and bought a
present for a child of that description. The gifts were brought up during our
service this morning and placed under the church Christmas tree. These gifts
will be delivered to their homes in the next few days.
There was
also an opportunity for those who had not taken tags to give appropriate gifts
for the refugees in contact with the Welcome Project run at Leicester Cathedral.
At a time
when we remember Jesus coming as the greatest gift of all it’s important to
show his love bygiving to those who have much less than we do.
