Dear friends
This Sunday we begin out new Advent and Christmas series called Sky full of Stars. The lyric is taken from a song by the band Coldplay.
“Cause you’re a sky, ’cause you’re a sky full of stars
I’m gonna give you my heart
‘Cause you’re a sky, ’cause you’re a sky full of stars
‘Cause you light up the path…
‘Cause in a sky, ’cause in a sky full of stars
I think I saw you…”
There’s something about looking up at the stars and wondering. Most people wonder. Look up. What do you see? In the bible, people looked up at the stars and wondered too. These were people who saw the darkness but saw signs of the hope of light. This Sunday we light the first of our candles on the advent ring as a sign of the light coming into the darkness. As we get nearer Christmas each week, we will hear about others in the bible who wondered at the stars and saw the light in the darkness. This Sunday we start with Abraham in Genesis 15. We’ll meet 11-12midday and there will be opportunity for younger members to explore the theme of wonder, the stars and Abraham, creatively.
We have been looking at the tech issues of last week in relation to the livestream but we hope these will be mended by Sunday. Then on the 4th December at café church we’ll continue the journey of wondering by looking at a prophet who told about the light coming in the darkness.
This Sunday we’ll have our MBC Christmas cards and they’ll be available for you to take and to hand to someone who you think might like to come to something at Christmas.
Thanks to those who have offered to volunteer to help with Carnival Christmas, with music, prayer, refreshments, warm spaces and making Christmas cards. Do get in touch with me, a deacon or someone who leads something in church if you want more information. We do this together and it’s more fun that way too. All ages included. Also for anything else you want to know about, just get in touch.
A little snapshot of the week…
This week we hosted a residents drop in for our local community, we worshiped in Space, we prayed for and discussed worship in services, we drank tea, kept warm and encouraged each other, we played with over 20 families in Stepping stones, we had a full electrical check for the building with improvements suggested, we put up a shelf in the music room, we played games, we cooked meals and sang songs in lunchclub, we spend time together learning about fruitfulness, we read the bible, we looked at contacts lists, we decorated boards, we posted on facebook, we made crafts, we talked, we prayed, we planned, we learned, we emailed, we welcomed… and much more
Please continue to pray for each other and our wider community as we journey in wonder together.
“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have set in place;
What is man that You think of him,
And a son of man that You are concerned about him?
Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!”
Psalm 81
In Christ
Shelley