Remembering with thanks

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Mon 3 Dec 2012 — 2:30 pm
Candle in Kemsing Church

On Sunday night, we held our annual Memorial Service in Kemsing Church. This year we held the service a little later - on Advent Sunday at the start of December.

We always get a good crowd to this, and yesterday was no exception. The service gives anyone who wants to come the chance to remember with thanks those they love but who have died. Many of those come having been recently bereaved, but for others the loss was many years ago yet still the opportunity to seek God's help and strength is valued.

A list of names was read out; we gave thanks to God and asked his help; the choir sang us some Schubert; a sermon was preached on Christ's victory over death as charted in 1 Corinthians 15; we shared tea and cake together in the church hall.