Carols by Candlelight

We had a full church this evening (Sunday 22 December) for our service of carols by candlelight. In it we remembered the Christmas story – of how the God of creation became a baby in Bethlehem to share in our experience and then to die for us. We used carols, readings from the Bible and poems. A particular innovation this year was a group with a Tamil background who not only sang the beginning of a traditional Carol in Tamil, but also a Tamil lullaby to the Virgin Mary with her child. It reminded us that Christians all around the world are celebrating the birth of the Christ child at this time.