Wassail

I recall, back in the day, that the good people of Wesley Methodist Church, Leigh-on-Sea would go carol singing in aid of the local hospice at Christmas time. I don’t know whether they still do this, indeed I hope they still do, but I also recall that they used to do this on the Highlands estate, a good couple or three miles from the church and certainly far closer to another church.

Strangely enough, Highlands always was the area in which Leigh’s higher earners dwelt.

Nowadays, I live in Preston and it recently occurred to me that I haven’t been visited by church-associated carol singers for a long time. I wonder whether this is related to my area’s average income, not least because Fulwood (where we don’t live) seems to have no shortage of carol singers. We were recently invited to a local church’s Christmas party at which an admission charge was levied. We didn’t go. Largely because of the admission charge.

I wonder how many churches consider that Christmas is a fund-raising activity rather than an evangelistic opportunity.

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