Choirs of Angels?
About 300 local residents gathered for the annual open air carol service led, this year, by Father James of St. Luke’s. The event was the result of the strenuous efforts of many individuals. local community groups, the police, the churches and Connexions. Centre-piece went to the choir of Temple Sutton School. Mince pies, mulled wine, hot chestnuts and many of the trappings of Christmas were in abundance… but the mystery of Christmas, the birth of the Son of God for the sins of the world, was celebrated, too. The support of the mayor of Southend and the local ward councillors was a welcome addition to the event and the mayor offered a short message of congratulations to the community for all that it had and was achieving together.
This latest, and best, annual service was originally the brain-child of Ferndale minister, Stephen Dray (who read the Scripture reading), and he was thrilled to see the way in which the community has taken responsibility for the event and embraced it as ‘their own’.
A lovely time.What a pity the local press were’nt there to report the event!
Comment by Andrew Mumford on 20 December 2008 at 09:47 PM
I think you will find the local paper( namely Echo ) is Biased. They like bad news, it is after all what the people want to read ( as quoted by one of their press, when one of my staff asked to put in somethiong good the Youth at Thundersley did once ).
Comment by pup150 on 22 December 2008 at 03:15 PM
Something not somethiong , my wrong spelling oops.
Comment by pup150 on 22 December 2008 at 03:17 PMRecently
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