International Carol Service

Another happy, helter-skelter weekend, Saturday began with emergency shopping for cable, logs and instant hot chocolate - then Student Centre AGM, then off to rendez-vous with Pat so I could get the car and go off to the church for preparation for Carol Service, then back to Eysines for Team Christmas Meal - Hooray !

Tomato and basil soup followed by

Chicken, carrots, sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing, pigs in blankets, all the peas you could eat, followed by

Banoffee pie and/or raspberry trifle.

( Ben is a good cook, being a follower of the blessed Delia. )

A good time was had by all and we collapsed into bed after playing this game where you have to find lots of different things all beginning with the same letter...

Today was strangely encouraging :

AM two new couples - one christians, the others wanting to see what a protestant church is like so they found us in the Yellow Pages !

PM International Carol Service - strangely hardly any Chinese ( one of them is moving house so they're all carrying boxes ) but this evening we had French people. Yahou ! And Americans. Also Yahou !

Ben led very energetically, and we did a 5 lessons and carols thing, with different folks reading : a Haitienne, a Chinese man, an American woman, a Frenchman and an English woman. Lovely to hear the different accents reading the prophecies. Then I preached on the Magi.

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