Having just compiled the listing of Christmas services for the churches in our area (all forty-one of them) I was amazed at the number of people who felt that they had engage the belt and braces approach of writing 'Christmas Eve (24th December)'. Unlike Easter (Good Friday is the 6th April 2012 by the way so time to get planning) the Christmas dates are fairly well fixed!
I mentioned this to one of my colleagues only to be told that they did it because it was 'belt and braces' and made sure that in case people didn't realise it was Christmas day they could go by the date and that they always used both on their communications.
Special prizes will also be given to those churches who submitted their service details in Comic Sans.
I'm also giving an award to the person who submitted:
Christmas Day (Sunday 25th December) 10:30 a.m. Christmas Day Communion Service (Come and celebrate the birth of jesus, bring your toys, mince pies and mulled wine after the service - suitable for all ages - all are welcome (with choir)).
Has to be the most comprehensive service announcement I've ever come across.
I'd go but I wouldn't be welcome as I don't have a choir!!!
Pax
1 comment:
That's pretty good going, we've got 17 'specials' across our two churches, including 2 that have to be done in several shifts because our church isn't big enough to hold the numbers if we just had one! As curate in a town centre church, we once counted 85 services in December, but that included the regular 5 on each Sunday, midweek communion, residential homes etc. Still, a bit of a monster!
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