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Christingle with Pizza!

Bring some light into January with our Christingle service, followed by pizza.
A service especially suitable for children and families.

What, you may ask, is a Christingle? It's a symbolic object that means ‘Christ’s light’: an orange with a candle held in its centre and a red ribbon around it. Four sticks holding fruit and nuts or sweets are pierced into the orange.

The orange represents the world, the red ribbon symbolises Christ’s love and blood, the lit candle represents his light in the world, the four sticks symbolise either the four points of a compass or the four seasons and the fruit or sweets represent all of God’s creations.

The Christingle tradition began in Germany in 1747 when John de Watteville, minister of a Moravian church, gave children a lighted candle with a red ribbon around it. This represented Christ as the light of the world. It was brought to Britain in the 1700s but became popular in the 1950s and 60s when the Children's society adopted it as a charitable event.

We'd love to see you there.

Aimed at Families with Children
Our Christingle event begins with a Christingle Making workshop 4pm in the Annexe, followed by a Simple Christingle Celebration Service 4:30pm and suitably topped off with a Pizza party at 5:00pm

No Charge but donations to St Johns always welcome.
St John’s Church, Brocket Road, Lemsford, Hertfordshire AL8 7TR
Sun 8 Jan 2023
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