December Newsletter

Newsletter December 2025

Dear Friends,

Every year Christmas gives us a great sense of fresh hope and wonder. Jesus’s birth transformed the world: it changed lives and continues to change us. Jesus was born in the humblest and most unlikely circumstances, in a stable surrounded by animals. Jesus is the living hope that God is with us, through thick and thin. Jesus is the Christmas gift of God’s unconditional love and forgiveness. Jesus is the light of the world, shining through the darkest darkness, and keeping alive that flicker of hope and joy which can never be extinguished. The Christmas story reminds us that even if we are afraid, we too can experience a renewed sense of hope and joy. So let’s celebrate the wonderful news together!

Wishing you and your family a very Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year.

God Bless,

Clare

Revd Clare Coates,
Lead Minister for Dry Drayton, Caldecote with Childerley and Hardwick
clarecoates@lordsbridge.org

07818 618 795

Services in December

Sunday 7 December

5:30pm Advent Choral Evensong with Revd Clare

Sunday 14 December

9:30am Holy Communion with Revd Clare

Sunday 21 December

11am Morning Worship

CHILDERLEY: 3pm a traditional service of Carols and Lessons in the Long Barn at Childerley Hall, with seasonal refreshments after the service. Childerley Gardens will be open from 2pm with the Carol service starting at 3pm. All welcome.

Wednesday 17 December

6pm a traditional service of Carols and lessons by candlelight with the combined choirs of Dry Drayton and Coton churches.

Christmas Eve

3pm Crib service with Revd Clare. Children are warmly invited to come dressed up as their favourite Christmas story character, and we will have a dressing up box available too!

11pm Midnight Mass with Canon Sue

Christmas Day

10am Family Communion with Revd Lynda

Sunday 28 December

Lordsbridge Team services:

9:30am BCP Morning Prayer, with John Harding at St Peter and St Paul’s Dry Drayton

11am Baptism Laurie Fairhurst

10:30am Holy Communion with Revd Steve Clark at St Mary’s Comberton

Online Services

Sundays at 11am Lordsbridge Zoom Service

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88221400075?pwd=b3VQeDArQVJRREtYTlgrZ0tEbDdWdz09

Meeting ID: 882 2140 0075

Passcode: 534531

Caldecote Women’s Prayer group Thursday mornings in term time at 9am on Zoom Women from Caldecote and surrounding villages are warmly invited to join us online, gathering in spirit to pray, reflect and lift one another up through prayers. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88137270141?pwd=pCvjk7eQrFqYX8GrvRP6JmMZKI9bYK.1

Meeting ID: 881 3727 0141
Passcode: 655934

What’s On:

Dry Drayton Coffee Morning

First Wednesdays every month, in the Village Hall, 10am -12noon.

Saturday 6 December at 6pm Christmas Choral concert at St Peter and St Paul’s Dry Drayton by St Catherine’s College Choir. The programme will include choral and organ music from the Renaissance to the 21^st Century. Tickets £15 and £5 (students and under 18s) to include wine/juice after the concert. Tickets can be reserved at https://drydraytonxmas.eventbrite.co.uk payment on the door.

HARDWICK Christmas Tree Festival 13 and 14 December 3-5pm in the church with refreshments available both afternoons; donations gratefully received. There will be a Christmas Concert with carols on Sunday 14 December 5-6pm with the Eversden Brass Band. Proceeds in aid of St Mary’s Fabric fund and Jimmy’s Night Shelter.

Hardwick:

Tuesday Toddlers in the Cabin, every Tuesday in term time 10-11:30am

All welcome to join us for free play, craft, story and fun!