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Edinburgh Church Christmas Tree Festival Opens

Wednesday December 9

 

“SHINE!” Edinburgh’s Christmas Tree Festival opens on Friday December 11 in St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church.

The elegant Georgian interior of this church will be filled with over 40 Christmas trees, sponsored and decorated by shops, businesses and charities from across the city.
 
This is the sixth such festival in the George Street church, and is open from 10am until 4pm until Christmas Eve with late opening on Thursdays, and with live music from schools, singers and instrumentalists.
 
Entry is free but donations from visitors will go to three local charities – Firsthand Lothian (supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged families), Circle (supporting families in central Scotland) and Amnesty International.
 
The church organises nursery visits, when the children will hear the story of the birth of Jesus, sing a carol and provide a decoration for the Children’s Tree. Older people from care homes in Edinburgh will also visit, sing carols and enjoy tea and mince pies in the Undercroft Café, which is open throughout the festival.
 
The minister of St Andrew's and St George's, the Rev Ian Gilmour, said: “The Christmas Tree Festival gives us a chance to get out of the rush of Christmas shopping, and to find something of the true meaning of Christmas – when God became one of us, as a vulnerable baby.  To quote an American minister, 'Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder'.”


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