Last Tuesday morning some of those present will never even remember their first meeting with Santa; just 24 hours later another part of Moortown’s wonderful family would no doubt have been looking back fondly over scores and scores of such encounters.
However, there’s one thing for sure and that’s when it comes to Santa few people conjure up the magic to span such an age gap. Furthermore whether Santa’s gift was a book about the very first Christmas or maybe something a little more age appropriate there’s no doubt that he and his smile go hand in hand.
Such events – the Stepping Stones and the Lunch Club Christmas parties would never take place if it weren’t for great leadership and dedicated teamwork. And that’s why Diane and Rachel plus a combined team of well over thirty: fairies, helpers, elves, washer uppers, cooks, servers, drivers etc. etc. need to step forward and take a bow for without them Christmas 2022 would for many be a struggle.
And that of course is why these two events, sandwhiched as they were between last Saturday’s Carnival Christmas Fair and this coming weekend’s Wreath Making and Nativity are so important.
And that’s because to many people all they think of when they see MBC is a building. However, to us what being a Christian is really all about, as Shelley keeps reminding us is far more than attending church, it’s “living in the light of Christ” – being a living community so that through such as these hopefully attractive “specials” we can spread our message of love, joy, hope and salvation as far and as wide as we can.
If that involves sharing round the one size fits all Santa suit then so be it!