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Merry Christmas from all at Wendover News The promise of Christmas …… the queue, and with them, Jesus, The run up to Christmas is a time of preparation and waiting: preparing for presents, meals, visitors, travelling, and waiting for the days to tick over until Christmas arrives.
hidden from our sight, yet to be born, present but not yet revealed.
This is the promise of Christmas. As we prepare and wait, we see that Jesus is already in the midst of us. Unseen and My experience, with young children and unborn, yet He is coming. teenagers is there are times when the preparation and the waiting is My prayer this Christmas is that we may overwhelming! Can’t it all be over now! all know Emmanuel, God with us, just as Mary and Joseph did. With best Luke’s Gospel tells the story of Joseph wishes to you all this Christmas. Michael Hunt, Curate of St Mary’s and Mary travelling to Bethlehem because of a census. A census that would have created similar long queues to those we experience in shops, restaurants and train stations at this time of year. Queuing up to have names recorded by officials: with resultant long delays, the boredom of children and the tedium of a long journey simply to record a name. Mary and Joseph waiting in
December 2012
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RAF Flypast date : Tuesday 11 December at 1.30pm To celebrate the completion of training at RAF Halton we can expect a flypast (weather permitting).
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