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December 2006 |
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Getting ready on King IslandAs this will be their first year on King Island, Peter and Barbara Nunn wonder what might happen. The Island will be preparing for its influx of families and tourists, all looking for their place in the sun with relatives and friends. Hopefully the sun will be shining and the waves breaking gently on our beaches. The pub, the restaurants and the clubs will be preparing Christmas (and then New Year's) dinners and lunches and, as it is school holiday time, there will be many more teenagers than usual, back home from boarding schools 'away'. The shops will be full of tempting goodies, and the children will be wanting all sorts of pre-ordered 'surprises'. So what will the churches be doing?A group from The Inter-church Council has designed, built and painted a Nativity scene to be displayed in one of the Currie supermarket's window. Others will gather to sing carols in the main street, and a Community Carols by Candlelight service will be held at Grassy, on the east coast of the Island. At All Saints Church we will gather for a Lessons and Carols Service, enjoy a Children's Church Christmas presentation, then celebrate the Birth of our Lord on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Our task will be, somewhere in the midst of all the bustle, to try to inject some recognition of the 'reason for the season', so that those who come to our Christmas Services will have more than a sentimental reason for coming. May they realise that without the birth of Jesus, they would have no reason to be thankful at all.
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