Happy Advent folks. We attended our own church for this morning's Advent service, so it was great to be with the good folks of St Mary's Great Baddow. We're usually in someone else' church, somewhere different each week. Prayers this morning included everybody, so my blip is of the collection of the congregation's prayers. It might be old news to some but I learned today of an alternative Advent idea, instead of opening a calendar and getting a gift, each day place a different gift in a box for distribution through Foodbank or the Homeless Centre. It was such a good idea that we've decided to have a go & I'll take a picture each day and post it as an extra. And here's the first.