Christmas Parish News

Monday January 9

Christmas in the parishes of the Church of Scotland. Please send your pictures to magazine@lifeandwork.org

Cardonald Parish Church in Glasgow held its first Christmas Tree Festival from December 6-10, in support of the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice Brick by Brick Appeal.

Each organisation and group, using the church, as well as Cardonald Primary School, was invited to decorate a tree to be displayed in the Sanctuary.  

Creative minds soon got to work and 26 trees went on display. Some focused on the organisation represented, while others took the opportunity to remind visitors of wider concerns of Christians, such as the persecuted church, Christian Aid and food banks. In addition to the trees, a beautiful Nativity was knitted and very pretty, small, fabric Christmas Trees were sewn to augment the display.

The trees were dedicated at a special Tuesday Service. An Evening of Carols and Songs was held and the film "It's a Wonderful Life" was shown.

£1126.48 was raised for the planned interfaith Sanctuary at the new hospice in Bellahouston Park Glasgow.

 An evolving Christmas diorama (a model representing a scene with three-dimensional figures) was created at the front door of St Andrew’s Wallace Green Church, Berwick-upon-Tweed, during Advent.

The diorama was created by artist Ray Nicholson, following the success of a similar project for Easter 2015.

This time it would be an evolving scene over the three Sundays before Christmas, starting with Mary and Joseph on their journey to Bethlehem; then the Kings appear following the star; the angel Gabriel materialising before the shepherds; and finally on Christmas Day, the nativity itself with all the characters coming together.

Pupils and staff of Banff Primary School, plus a large number of parents, grandparents and friends, attended the end-of-term Christmas service in Banff Parish Church.

A surprise guest was a ''camel'' who was interviewed by minister Rev. David Locke, and who related the reason for his long journey with his fellow camels as they carried the Three Wise Kings from the Oriental East to Bethlehem.

During the service the children took part in Bible readings, choir items and carol singing.

Linwood Parish Church, in the Presbytery of Greenock and Paisley, hosted a Christmas Tree Festival created by Riverbrae School’s Clippens Campus, in partnership with local primary schools and care homes.

 Scenes from the nativity service at St Madoes and Kinfauns Parish Church, in the Presbytery of Perth.

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