Advent

The Church's New Year started with a lovely Worship Together service themed on the Jesse Tree. We wrote the names of those in our own spiritual family trees on colourful luggage tags that became the decorations for a very Christmassy looking Jesse Tree.
Over coffee Rosemary told me about the Greenbelt ADVENTurous event she attended yesterday and in particular Ruth Valerio's talk in which she said that it is now generally accepted that there will be a 4C rise in the earth's temperature, (this used to be something we considered the high end of possibilities).Overall it was a bleak picture, although there were some local positive events going on. Later I headed round checking up the thermostats - disappointed to find that every radiator in the refectory was on max.
We did enjoy a lovely church meal with spectacularly good veggie moussaka.