Silver band lead the carols
The
much loved annual Hope for Penicuik carol concert in the town hall on
Saturday 8 December saw the Penicuik Silver Band, the Puppets and much
more, bring us the real meaning of Christmas through story, theatre and
song.
Many familiar faces from the monthly Messy Church, which
the team also organise, joined the audience, of families with children
young and old.
To open the evening the Silver Band led us in that favourite Christmas carol, Hark the herald angels sing.
 Joan
Cape welcomed the visitors and introduced Mrs Grumpy, who had her own
disparaging thoughts about Christmas, complaining that we were doing
‘all that old stuff again!’
After some discussion Mrs Grumpy agreed , with some grumbling, to listen to our story.
Hitting
the ‘rap’ scene were our angel, shepherd and narrator from
our ‘Beatbox Bible’ team video. Taking Luke chapter 2 they
sang out the story as a great rap song. We provided subtitles so those
unfamiliar could follow what was going on.
You can watch their performance by clicking on this link.
Mrs Grumpy was not sure if she liked that but it was different. Joan asked her to bear with us and see what happens.
 Margaret
Webster read the poem ‘Mary’ by Shelley Spiers, a primary
school teacher from County Armagh with a passion for writing and
telling children about Jesus. You can read the poem by following this link.
In
a video from the Bible Society ‘The Mystery of the New Noisy
Neighbour we watched the first part of the story as Mary and Joseph set
off to Bethlehem. Watch the video on this link
Time
for a carol, with the silver band leading ‘O little town of
Bethlehem’, with our puppets helping explain the story. Our new
group made up of Carolyn Toms on guitar, Mary Ritchie lead
singer, and Neil Cape on bass, led us on the carols ‘Away in
a manger’ followed by ‘Still the night. ‘
Mary, Carolyn & Neil
Bill
Webster read the ‘Angels’ song, before we returned to the
next part of new noisy neighbour video, the shepherds.
 The
Silver band led us in two carols, ‘while humble shepherds watched
their flocks’, followed by ‘Angels from the realms of
glory’.
Mrs Grumpy was beginning to see the light, why Jesus was sent us by God. Part 3 of our video told us of the wisemen.
‘We
three kings of Orient are’ was led by the silver band, and
followed by Carolyn Toms and the group leading ‘In the bleak
midwinter’.
The puppets then took us into ‘People
need the Lord’, followed by Mary Ritchie reading 'Adoration of
the Magi' and Carolyn Toms leadfing ‘What kind of
greatness’, before our final video ‘Searching for a
baby’.
A transformed Mrs Grumpy now told Joan that she could indeed see the true purpose of Christmas and that people do need the Lord.
Puppets sing out our final Christmas carol
A
final prayer of thanks for the gift of Jesus at Christmas took us into
our closing carol ‘O come all ye faithful’ with the Silver
Band raising the roof for the finale.
Thanks to Joan and Neil Cape and the Hope for Penicuik team putting together another great family Christmas carol concert.
The
team wish everyone a very merry Christmas and look forward to welcoming
you to Messy Church new year season starting Sunday 27 January 2019.
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