{"id":24215,"date":"2025-12-19T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?p=24215"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:16:53","slug":"21-nativity-nativity-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/21-nativity-nativity-service\/","title":{"rendered":"21 December &#8211; Nativity Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24229 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nativity_27534c-3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nativity_27534c-3-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nativity_27534c-3-2-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nativity_27534c-3-2-1024x307.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nativity_27534c-3-2-150x45.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nativity_27534c-3-2-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nativity_27534c-3-2-720x216.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>On Sunday we mark the Fourth Sunday of Advent and lighting the candle of Love. \u00a0<\/strong><strong>The service at 11:00 will be led by the Revd Dr Jacob Bali (Minister) and will include our Pop-Up Nativity.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>There will be opportunities for you, if you wish, to get involved in our \u2018Pop-Up\u2019 Nativity.\u00a0 Entitled The Greatest Journey, \u00a0this is an informal and fun re-telling of the story of the birth of Jesus. \u00a0The story-telling will also include congregational carols and prayer.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Participation in the nativity performance is optional but will work best with lots of people taking part, either simply as part of \u2018a chorus\u2019 or in a particular role. We will need all the well-known characters: Mary, Joseph, shepherds (and sheep!), Magi, stars, angels \u2026.. so plenty of roles to choose from!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Following the Service coffee and tea will be available in the Old Hall. \u00a0Do join us!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday we mark the Fourth Sunday of Advent and lighting the candle of Love. \u00a0The service at 11:00 will be led by the Revd Dr Jacob Bali (Minister) and will include our Pop-Up Nativity. There will be opportunities for you, if you wish, to get involved in our \u2018Pop-Up\u2019 Nativity.\u00a0 Entitled The Greatest Journey, &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/21-nativity-nativity-service\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;21 December &#8211; Nativity Service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24238,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24215\/revisions\/24238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}