Sunday 22nd December…
10:30 Nativity Service
Later in the day…
5:45 Carols on the Community Garden
6:15 Mulled wine and mince pies
6:30 Christingle and more carols!
Christmas at Bank Top Church – starts with the Nativity…
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Cranberries at Christmas…
In the run up to Christmas, Bank Top helped the Bolton Urban Outreach Christmas hamper project.
There’s more detail on their website here but in summary…
“In total 1200 hampers blessed 1907 adults & 1720 children, with 1271 chickens, 4800 clementines & 30,000 Brussel Sprouts! Thank you to the hundreds of people who helped make it happen, and brought some joy into the lives of people who were struggling at Christmas.”
Our contribution was to donate 100 jars of cranberry sauce which was well represented by our soon to be trademarked “Cranberryometer.”
We’re grateful to everyone in Sunday School who helped co-ordinate the appeal and help us reach the target.
In response to Urban Outreach’s Dave Bagley, Christine Catherall wrote the poem below to celebrate the challenge.
CRANBERRIES AT CHRISTMAS
At Bank Top we have a thermometer
We call the Cranberryometer
It’s a kind of a barometer
That tells us where we’re at
On each Sunday morning
Just as the day is dawning
We bring in jars of Cranberries
Small and round and fat
These little jars of blessing
Used as a turkey dressing
Go into Christmas hampers
For Jim or Bill or Pat
At Winterwatch and Outreach
They do not try to preach
But put God’s love in action
Delivering food to house and flat
At this special time of year
It’s good to bring some cheer
To lots of lonely people
Wherever they are at
So let’s thank the Lord above
For showing us his love this Christmas time
May the gift of his dear Son touch the hearts of everyone
This is my prayer for you this Christmas time
Christine Catherall
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O come, O come, Immanuel,
and ransom captive Israel,
that mourns in lonely exile here
until the Son of God appear:
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Immanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, thou Wisdom from above
who ord’rest all things through thy love;
to us the path of knowledge show
and teach us in her ways to go:
O come, O come, thou Lord of might,
who to thy tribes, on Sinai’s height,
in ancient times didst give the law
in cloud, and majesty, and awe:
O come, thou Rod of Jesse,
free thine own from Satan’s tyranny;
from depths of hell thy people save,
and give them vict’ry o’er the grave:
O come, thou Key of David, come,
and open wide our heavenly home;
make safe the way that leads on high,
and close the path to misery:
O come, thou Dayspring, come and cheer
our spirits by thine advent here;
disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
and death’s dark shadows put to flight:
O come, Desire of nations,
bring all peoples to their Saviour King;
thou Comer-stone, who makest one,
complete in us thy work begun:
O come, O come, Immanuel,
and ransom captive Israel,
that mourns in lonely exile here
until the Son of God appear:
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Immanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
BankTopics – December 2013
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The hour approaches!
Come and join us on Sunday!
10:30 – Nativity with proper carols
5:45 – Bank Top Gardens, mulled wine and mince pies – supported by proper carols
6:15 – Christingle Service – readings wrapped in proper carols
Spot the heavenly choir!
December 2012 Newsletter
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Christmas Services
The Nativity play is on Sunday 23 December 2012 at 10.30 am.
The Christingle service is on Sunday 23 December 2012 at 6.15 pm. Carols in the garden at 5.45 pm – weather permitting. We will be serving mince pies and mulled wine at 6 pm.
The Christmas Eve Service at 11.30 pm will be taken by Rev George Mwaura and Andy Guthrie.
The Christmas Day service will be at 10.30 am and Andy will be leading our worship.