This is number forty-one in our series of on-line services led by The Rev’d Simon Carver.  We hope that you enjoy listening to the words and music and that it will help you feel part of the community of our church through these difficult times.

We are grateful to Birgitta Birchall and Miriam Gussek for our music and to Danny Smith, who arranges the podcasting.

To see today’s service sheet click here.

Order of Service

1. Prelude A Christmas Medley – Rebecca Belliston (played by Miriam Gussek)

2.Call to Worship

3. “Born on a new day” – The King’s Singers

4.Prayer

5. Lighting the Advent Candle – Richard and Lesley Humber

6. “See him lying on a bed of straw”

7.Reading – John 1:  1 – 14

8.Meditation

9. “O Holy Night” – Valerie Robertson, Jill Halsey and St Columba’s Handbells

10.Prayers

11.Benediction

12. Postlude:  “O Come all ye faithful” – Trans-Siberian Orchestra

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