This year’s office Carol Service has again been a success.
5 Carols interspersed with three readings from Luke, a solo, and a talk by a professor form a local university.
The talk was well presented and contained good stuff, but unfortunately he went on too long and people started walking out. However, he did several times plug the Alpha course we will be presenting in the new year, so hopefully something will come of that.
I was surprised to find myself sitting next to someone from my own department (though in a different team), who turns out to be a Christian. So it looks as though he will start coming to our prayer group now that he has discovered us. And hopefully there will be others too.
I was helping to run the minibus service for people from the other building to come along. For this I took along my own minibus that I have for the family, having spent £50 getting it valetted for the occasion to save my blushes. But of course, in this cold frosty weather a car gets filthy as soon as you take it off the drive, so money seemed wasted. But it did get off the monkey footprints form our last safari park visit. And of course with the weather it didn’t want to start, so I had to get the jump leads form my other car to get it going. And then I went to the petrol station to fill up, but couldn’t get the key in the petrol cap. Went home for the spare key thinking I must have the wrong one, but it was just the lock frozen up!
I also had to miss an hour of work, make a donation to the fund etc, so all in all the carol service cost me personally something approaching £100, so I hope someone comes to know Christ as a result.
Oh, and the mince pies were nice!
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Thursday, December 20
Wednesday, December 13
Carol Service Report
Success!
Despite having our original venue cancelled and moving to another room 1/2 mile away! Our minibus shuttle service between offices worked very well.
A decent number of people attended – my estimate is 70-80. There were many others who could not or would not attend, but still talked to me about it, and it all provides opportunities to raise the profile of Christ in our workplace.
The musicians were good.
The readers were good.
The Carols were loud enough and [mostly] in tune.
The soloist was very good.
The Bishop attended – but only just. He arrived 2 anxious minutes after we had started because instead of relying on the maps I had given him he relied on his new sat nav. I rest my case!
The Bishop’s talk was easy to listen to and very entertaining and certainly challenging. It was probably about 5% religion, and 95% Stern Report (the government-commissioned report into climate change). I’m not absolutely convinced that it fulfilled my brief to him that the service was to be ‘evangelistic without scaring them off’, but I suppose in theory at least the bishop should be open to divine inspiration without reference to my stipulations, and maybe my ideal sermon would indeed have scared them off.
Afterwards the bishop and our chief executive had a long conversation, so at least one objective of the occasion was achieved.
More importantly, when I had finished running the minibus shuttle, there was still one last mince pie left for me.
The only negative was that the envelope containing our collected gift for he bishop got left in my desk drawer, and will have to be posted on. Oops!
All in all, I was happy with the outcome. I can only recommend that any Christian in a workplace should use all means to communicate the faith to his/her colleagues.
Despite having our original venue cancelled and moving to another room 1/2 mile away! Our minibus shuttle service between offices worked very well.
A decent number of people attended – my estimate is 70-80. There were many others who could not or would not attend, but still talked to me about it, and it all provides opportunities to raise the profile of Christ in our workplace.
The musicians were good.
The readers were good.
The Carols were loud enough and [mostly] in tune.
The soloist was very good.
The Bishop attended – but only just. He arrived 2 anxious minutes after we had started because instead of relying on the maps I had given him he relied on his new sat nav. I rest my case!
The Bishop’s talk was easy to listen to and very entertaining and certainly challenging. It was probably about 5% religion, and 95% Stern Report (the government-commissioned report into climate change). I’m not absolutely convinced that it fulfilled my brief to him that the service was to be ‘evangelistic without scaring them off’, but I suppose in theory at least the bishop should be open to divine inspiration without reference to my stipulations, and maybe my ideal sermon would indeed have scared them off.
Afterwards the bishop and our chief executive had a long conversation, so at least one objective of the occasion was achieved.
More importantly, when I had finished running the minibus shuttle, there was still one last mince pie left for me.
The only negative was that the envelope containing our collected gift for he bishop got left in my desk drawer, and will have to be posted on. Oops!
All in all, I was happy with the outcome. I can only recommend that any Christian in a workplace should use all means to communicate the faith to his/her colleagues.
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