Dear Friends

Happy New Year to everyone!  I do hope that 2010 will be a year of real blessing for everyone and for our church.  I thought it might help to begin the New Year with some wise words …

‘What if the three wise men had been three wise women?  Well, they would have asked for directions and arrived on time, helped deliver the baby, cleaned the stable, brought a casserole and given the child much more practical gifts.’ (Susan Perlman). 

Dear Friends

The shops are decorated.  The lights are on in the village.  The music is playing in the shops.  There are mince pies for sale.  The first Christmas cards are beginning to drop through letter boxes and it won’t be long until we all begin to decorate our homes.  The adverts on the TV are already advising us which supermarket will be selling the cheapest/most succulent/freshest/most free-range turkeys - and it won’t be long until the adverts for the January sales start.  So this is Christmas - or is it?!