There’s always plenty of music at Christmastime. The shops blast out favourites old and new. Every advert on the TV is accompanied by sleigh bells. Children practise ‘Little Donkey’ for the school nativity. And adult choirs dust off their copies of Handel’s Messiah or ‘Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree’ and try to squeeze in extra rehearsals before their December concerts.

There was music at the first Christmas too. Not so much in crowded Bethlehem, with Joseph and Mary desperately trying to find somewhere to stay the night. Nor in Herod’s palace in Jerusalem, where news of a newborn king was the last thing anyone wanted to hear. But out in the fields, to bemused shepherds, a host of angels singing, ‘Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favour rests.’

Come and join in the with the angels’ song at our annual Carol Service, taking place at 3.00 pm on Sunday 22nd Dec. There’ll be a warm welcome, and mulled wine and mince pies afterwards.

Service times this month are as follows:

Sunday 1st Dec – Holy Communion at 9.30 am (Advent Sunday)
Sunday 15th Dec – Holy Communion at 9.30 am
Sunday 22nd Dec – Carol Service at 3.00 pm, followed by mulled wine and mince pies

Our weekly services on Sundays at Emmanuel in Bridlington are at 11.00. They are livestreamed on our Facebook page and are available shortly afterwards on YouTube.