Advent

We're now into the season of Advent and Christmas is just around the corner. This is the first Christmas where we will be without a Priest in charge at St. David's. So it is with a mixture of excitement and trepidation as I am putting together some of the services and events for the first time. We are still getting used to not having a Eucharistic service each week, however, the Services of the Word are being well received. Taking Communion only every other week makes me realise just how precious it is and we are grateful that the service is still available to us.

Congregation numbers are low but static. Live music has been a problem in church and we now have cover for most services. We've even got some variety; piano on the 1st Sunday, organ on the 2nd and 4th and the flute on the 3rd. All we need now is for more people to come along and sing!

Regardless of the challenges, there is an air of excitement as we wait to see what God is doing in our lives and where he is leading us.

Remembrance and Thanksgiving service

Tonight we held a service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance. It was the first service of this type I had taken so I was a bit nervous. We had a lot of people to remember and we lit a candle for each of them and named them by name. The clocks went back last night and so it's dark earlier on an evening. Not many people like to venture out on dark nights and the service, being at 6pm meant it was dark and so the service wasn't very well attended. Maybe we'll try it earlier next time.

New beginnings

It's been a while since my last blog. We are now without a Priest-in-charge at St. David's since Bob's retirement and he isn't going to be replaced. Revd.David will be taking Communion services on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month and Audrey and myself will be taking non-eucharistic services in between.

It's a rather daunting and yet exciting time. Since Bob retired I've hardly been at church as my work has taken me out of the country for a couple of months. I'm now back and don't plan on going away again for quite a while. I've got into the habit of blogging to keep family and friends in touch with what I've been up to so it seemed like a good idea to get this blog up and running properly. Who knows, we might even get some regular followers and use it as an avenue to introduce people to Jesus Christ.

So - watch this space for what's going on in our corner of Beeston.

Good Friday workshop

The Good Friday workshop was well attended and the children began by making badges in the shape of crowns; some fantastic ones too. We then played a game of 'How'd you do?' and those kids can run much faster than us adults!

We made some palm trees out of newspapers and some really colourful streamers - all great fun for shouting 'Hosanna' with.

The highlight of the day for the children would probably be Doreen's iced buns, however, the discussion about Jesus' last week is something that will stay with us for a long time. The children never fail to engage in the story and they never fail to amaze us.

At St. David's we try to run several workshops a year, so look out in the events section for dates of future workshops.