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©Kirton News 2024
The Editor's Letter
Well, 2024 is very nearly at a close. Blink and you’ll have missed it completely! There are loads of festive events being advertised this month so please go along to show your support and get involved in our community festivities! The Kirton News Christmas tree will be featuring in not one, but two Christmas Tree Festivals this year, both in Kirton and Frampton! These are wonderful events and a chance to soak up the festive atmosphere, support your local churches and to catch up with your neighbours. Kirton’s Festival will be held on Sat 7th and Sun 8th December and our neighbouring village of Frampton will open theirs on Saturday 14th December.
We will be hosting our annual Coffee Morning for our wonderful band of Distributors on Saturday 14th December in the Upsall Room at Kirton Town Hall. We hope to see you all there and be able to say a huge ‘Thank You’ in person! If you would like to join our group of distributors, please send me an email!
We join St Peter and St Paul’s Church in welcoming Father Paul Norwood and his wife Carol and we hope they will be very happy in Kirton. Fr Paul has sent a letter to you all during this festive period:
As Christmas approaches we begin to think of our families, we long for the past where all our families would gather together around the fire exchanging presents, with snow on the ground and the sound of a choir singing carols. This of course, a romantic view of Christmas, an image that we only find on the television, on the front of Christmas cards, but there is an element of truth in it. As I have grown older my want for presents has been replaced with the want for presence of my family around me, seeing them has become of greater value.
In many ways this is the message of Christmas, God wants us his children to be present, to be with him, not just at Christmas but always. This is why God sent his only son, his very self to be with us, as one with us, so that we may know God and God may know us. God’s present to us is his very self, not just for Christmas, but for all time.
Show your love to your family as God shows his love for us, not in expensive presents but by your very presence.
Please do send through any letters, announcements, recipes or reviews at Editor@kirtonnews.co.uk.
I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a Healthy 2025!
