Christingle on an Unchurched-Estate

The Christingle service was all set up in the Community Chapel, the ‘Community Choir' had been practicing and sounded like angels!! The candles were lit there was a true sense of God in and at the Centre. The 30 Christingles were ready (a group of us had put them together on the afternoon) the chapel could seat 30 so I thought we would have more than enough room..........well that star must have been shining over our estate, people started coming in, we led them to the chapel, then one of the residents came running in saying, ‘ you'll never fit them all in the chapel, there are lots of people coming.' Sure enough everything had to be moved into the community hall, there was over 60 Adults and Children came, Amazing!!
The choir led the carols, one of the residents read prayers (she had never done anything like that before) one of the residents children sang the first verse of Away in a Manger, and when we dimmed the lights and everyone joined in with the singing, it was beautiful!
I am sure the Angels were singing with us.