Trinity United Reformed Church Wimbledon
Sunday 20 December
11:00 Morning Worship with Nativity Play
15:00 Choir Practice
18:30 Carols & Readings by Candlelight followed by mulled wine and mince pies
Monday 21 December
11:30 Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Moya Rice-Jones
17:30 Carol singing for Christian Aid at Raynes Park station
Tuesday 22 December
Wednesday 23 December
Thursday 24 December – Christmas Eve
17:30 Christingle Service
23.15 Communion by Candlelight
Friday 25 December – Christmas Day
10:30 Family Service for Christmas Day
Saturday 26 December – Boxing Day
Sunday 27 December
11:00 Morning Worship
Our ever-popular Service of Carols & Readings by Candlelight was held on 20 December. Our thanks to musicians and singers, led by Director of Music, Andrew Davies, and to our readers who represented a range of Trinity’s life. As always, the Service was well attended, and the congregation enjoyed mulled wine and mince pies afterwards.
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- Andrew with the choir and instrumentalists before the Service
Trinity Toddlers had a surprise visit from Santa on Friday 18 December.
For the last two years, the Bible Society has been exploring various retellings of Bible stories. Different authors and illustrators have put their Bible knowledge and storytelling skills to the test, creating a number of brilliant Bible story retellings in formats from poems to comics.
These are all part of their project Pass it On which aims to encourage older Christians to share the Bible with the next generation. And they’d like to encourage you to do that with this film too.
It has been developed using their latest Christmas booklet, written by Bob Hartman and Illustrated by Honor Ayres. This charming retelling of the Christmas story is just four minutes long, so it’s perfect for watching at home with the family or
Copies are available at church See more on the Bible Society website here.
Sunday 13 December – Final day of Christmas Tree Festival
09:30 Choir Practice
09:30 Bible with Breakfast
11:00 Morning Worship
12:30 Christmas Tree Festival continues
15:00 Nativity Rehearsal
16:30 Carols among the Trees followed by sherry & stollen
Monday 14 December
20:00 Badminton
Tuesday 15 December
20:00 Queens Road Housegroup
Wednesday 16 December
Thursday 17 December
20:00 Advent Bible Study (4)
Friday 18 December
19:45 Choir Practice
20:00 Friday Fellowship
Saturday 19 December
15:00 Nativity Dress Rehearsal
Sunday 20 December
09:30 Bible with Breakfast
11:00 Morning Worship with Nativity Play
15:00 Choir Practice
18:30 Service of Carols & Readings by Candlelight followed by mulled wine and mince pies
This is the reaction of everyone as they come into Trinity during the Christmas Tree Festival! Anyone can go to a pantomine. But we’ve got something unique and very special happening at Trinity. So don’t miss it!
Today we had a quite amazing variety of entertainment – in addition to the fabulous trees of course! A choir from Wimbledon High (Junior) School sang beautiful Christmas carols and music for us; the Baked Bean Theatre Company, who regularly hire our premises, were full of exuberance and happiness as they gave us a variety of musical numbers. They were followed by a wonderful concert by Miriam Grant and Judith Flint, performed on piano, viola and violin – the perfect relaxation for a Friday afternoon! And finally, an hour of Christmas music by the superb Barnes Sax Quartet – a real treat!
And so to our third Festival day – the Big Saturday!
The big event of the day is at 18:00 when two teams of hand bell ringers (the Nonsuch Ringers & Hat Band Ringers) will give us a very special concert. This group is generously giving their time to us, so please do support them. Children and adults of all ages will enjoy this event. It will be a perfect event to get you in the Christmas spirit.
Earlier in the day, some of our Trinity musicians will be performing.
At 10:30 ‘Soft Rock (Roger Jones and friends)
At 14:30 We have ‘Just Soh’ (Miriam and the hospice choir).
At 16:00 Eddie Henning and Merton Brass will entertain us.
So come along to all of these events at Trinity’s Festival.
The Festival is now open
Come and visit to see the church transformed
Thursday 10 December 12:30 – 19:30
Friday 11 December 12:30 – 19:30
Saturday 12 December 10:30 – 19:30
Sunday 13 December 12:30 – 16:00
We have 39 beautifully decorated trees- each one a fabulous individual creation and the product of many hours of planning and creativity. There is so much to see and admire. We also have a treasure hunt for children, vote for your favourite tree, and win a prize for the best Festival photo. Today until Sunday – when we close with “Carols Among the Trees” at 4.30pm (followed by sherry and stollen). Support our charity Crisis. Not to be missed!
Today the congregation welcomed Mr Rob van Mesdag, Ambassador for Crisis, who spoke during the Morning Service on the history and work of Crisis – our partner charity for this week’s Christmas Tree Festival.
Sunday 6 December
09:15 Choir practice
09:15 Bible with Breakfast
10:30 Elders’ Meeting
11:00 Morning worship with Holy Communion
15:00 Nativity rehearsal
Monday 7 December
Tuesday 8 December
Wednesday 9 December
11:00-20:00 Christmas tree decorators setting-up time
20:00 Church & Society
Thursday 10 December
12:30- 19:30 Christmas Tree Festival
12:45 Silver Park Trio (Mozart, Schumann and Monti’s Czardas)
14:00 Willington School choristers
15:00 Wimbledon High School concert (year 4)
20:00 Advent course – 3
Friday 11 December
12:30-19:30 Christmas Tree Festival
14:30 Wimbledon High School concert (year 5)
15:30 Baked Bean Company concert
16:30 Miriam Grant & Judith Flint (piano, viola & violin)
18:30 The Barnes Sax Quartet
19:45 Choir practice
20:00 Friday Fellowship
Saturday 12 December
10:30-19:30 Christmas Tree Festival
10:30 Soft Rock – Some festival music (Trinity’s musicians)
11:30 Andrew Davies – organ & piano music for Christmas
14:30 Just Soh
16:00 Merton Brass
18:00 Nonsuch Ringers & Hat Band Ringers handbell concert
Sunday 13 December
09:30 Bible with Breakfast
09:30 Choir practice
11:00 Morning worship
12:30-16:00 Christmas Tree Festival
15:00 Nativity rehearsal
16:30 Carols Among the Trees (followed by sherry & stollen)
The volunteers for the big church cleaning taking a well-earned coffee break. A big ‘thank you’ to all who came along. They did a great job of giving the church a thorough clean and tidy in preparation for the Christmas Tree Festival and for Christmas.