Some last minute preparations before the start of a carol concert at Christ Church Timperley in the week. Highlights for me were the excellent choirs - Sing, the Wellington School Choir and the Chamber Choir who sang an Anglo-Welsh carol Hwiangerdd Mair.
The church was built between 1848 and 1851 from local red sandstone, in the Neo-Norman style, with a slate roof. Sadly the spire was removed a few years ago when it became unsafe.
Some pupils held up large wrapped presents displaying headlines from a school survey:
(i) What do you want for Christmas?
(ii) what do you want for the world for Christmas?
The first set of answers were, of course, a range of electronic gadgetry that the planet's resources cannot really afford to give up, and the second set, which made my heart sing, included: Equality, peace on earth, love. Maybe some of the western world's leaders should have been in attendance to hear and to act accordingly.
E Q U A L I T Y - take note please local Tory Members of Parliament Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale, who voted against same-sex marriage) and George Gideon Osbourne (Tatton, who as Chancellor of the Exchequer takes from the poor to give to the rich). I trust too that you will both be turning down (or donating to charity) the 11% pay rise being awarded to MPs?
thanks for joining us at InSPIREd Sunday. always glad to have ya. i enjoy how it is so open inside the church. lovely!! ( :
ReplyDelete«Louis» would like to see more of this church.
ReplyDeleteHe posted this Episcopal (Anglican) church in the Victorian village of Ferndale, California.
Beautifully decorated for their festival of carols. Such a pretty church.
ReplyDeleteYou took that from the loft area
ReplyDeleteMP's pay isn't what it used to be you know.....they really need that 11%.
ReplyDeleteHonest.
Hmmm.
We're off to the Halle Christmas Carol Concert tomorrow evening - I need to exercise my voice!
JJ
I always enjoyed the Christmas concerts at church when I was growing up. Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas!
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