On Monday Key Stage 1 from St James's School (left) performed their Nativity with carols, with lots of parents, grandparents and friends watching from the gallery.
Tuesday and it was the turn of Key Stage 2 for their service of Carols by Candlelight in the Church (pictured below). Every class made its own contribution and everyone, including mums and dads, aunts and uncles, in the gallery joined in with some well known carols. The whole event was rounded of with all of key stage 2 giving a moving rendition of 'O Holy Night.'
The Junior Faith Group led the prayers and the winners of the school Christmas Poem competition read their compositions. I will blog some of their poems and prayers in a later post.
Meanwhile, at the back of church we had a display of the children's Christmas work which will remain in church until the new year for the congregation to see.
In my talk I showed the children one of my Christmas presents, all wrapped up, with a label saying 'Do not open until Christmas Day.' Could they guess what I was getting?
A sea of hands was raised with suggestions.
It could be chocolates, they said, or Lego, or it could be a bible (good present for a vicar, but I do like Lego aswell). The thing is, I said, you can't tell what it is just by lookimg.
Then I took the baby from the manger and held him in my arms. The thing about Jesus, I said, was you couldn't tell who Jesus is, or how special he was, just by looking.
He looked as if he was just a baby.
But there was something special about Jesus. The children in the Nativity video from New Zealand (see below) which we played earlier in the service, gave us the clue. They said 'he had two daddies, Joseph and God.'
That was the amazing thing about Jesus that you couldn't tell just by looking. He was a human being, just like us, but he was also God. And he came to be our saviour.
PS Did you notice the last phrase on the credits at the end: 'Based on a true story.' I like that.
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