The feeling that Christmas is on the way is triggered at different times for each of us.
For the last minute present buyers it’s Dec 24, for others it’s the opposite extreme, the January sales. Others know Christmas is coming when the Christmas TV adverts appear in November or when the decorations are unpacked from the loft and those missing or useless bulbs are identified.
For me Christmas begins with our annual craft making event, “Make It!". This special evening signals that the Lansdowne Christmas programme is here and the countdown to the big day has started.
This year we are making our overall theme Hope.
And in a world marked by despair in Ukraine, Gaza and Israel, it’s good to be reminded that there was a moment in history when the Hope of the world appeared, located in Bethlehem, in a child in a manger.
For the wonder of Christmas is that hope is not an optimism about the future or a wish that things might improve. Hope is a person, Jesus. God's Son and our Saviour.
So as we celebrate with friends and family, at parties and in Carol concerts, we remember that the Light of Hope burns brightly in our world. Let's signpost that hope this year as we invite others to the various events we have planned.
- Peter Baker, Senior Minister
Christmas Offering 2023
Our Christmas offering this year will be divided equally between PACE and Farsi CEF.
For more information on these two organisations and on how to donate, please click below:
Follow along our weekly Advent Devotions:
Our services and events this Christmas:
Tue 21 NOV 7-9pm Make It!
Fri 1-8 DEC (All Week) Community Outreach Events
Sun 3 DEC
10:30am Advent Morning Baptism Service
7pm Sundays at Seven Communion Service
Tue 5 DEC (All Day) Encore! trip to Bath Christmas Market
Thu 7 DEC
10am Lansdowne Tots Christmas Special
7:30pm Advent Prayer Central
Sat 9 DEC 7pm Stories of Hope with Glen Scrivener
Sun 10 DEC
10:30am Morning Communion Service with Glen Scrivener
1pm-4pm Student Christmas Lunch
7pm Hope for the World Carol Service with Glen Scrivener
Glen Scrivener will be sharing with us in our carol service with an international flavour at 7pm. We will be celebrating with some of the traditions and songs of our church family from across the world. Do invite your friends to share this special evening with us, refreshments will be served from 6:30pm.
Wed 13 DEC 12-2pm Community Christmas at The Hub
Sun 17 DEC
10:30am Christmas Families Service featuring Lansdowne Kids and Youth
This special service will feature our children and young people in this all-age Christmas celebration. Do come along as we sing and read our way through the Christmas story and marvel again with the children over the unique and wonderful way our Saviour Jesus entered this world.
7pm Traditional Carol Service
Do join us as we sing traditional carols (and the odd modern one!). We will also get to enjoy the ‘Choir that’s not a Choir’ singing group and it will be followed by some tasty Christmas refreshments.
Tue 19 DEC 11:45am-1pm In Touch Christmas Lunch
Sun 24 DEC 10:30am Christmas Eve Morning Service
Mon 25 DEC 10:30am Family Celebration Service
Sun 31 DEC 10:30am Morning Service
Wed 3 JAN 10:30am The Hub Café Re-opens
Sun 7 JAN
10:30am Motto Sunday Service
7pm Sundays at Seven