Blessing of the Crib

Thursday 24th December 2020 - CHRISTMAS EVE - CHRISTMAS DAY??

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If this year hasn't been confusing enough, we made our morning service our Christmas Day celebration. That's because we needed to have services in church and a service online to cover everyone. Our caretaker was able to deep clean the church after the morning service before our Midnight service but we didn't fancy cleaning the church after midnight to get it ready for a morning service. 

At the end of the service we went outside to dedicate and bless the new crib in memory of our dear friend, who was also a member of the choir. The choir had sung two pieces inside, socially distanced, and now we were all able to join in outside with three verses of O little town of Bethlehem. We managed to keep the congregation socially distanced for it and it was a very special time for all concerned. 

This afternoon we had two crib services online. I needn't have offered two. The first one didn't really have enough but the second one had a lot more and was really interactive. We got the children to dress as one of the characters. 

On then to our midnight service back in church.