24/12/2025
As we move through Advent - the tender season of watching, waiting and making room for hope - we are also preparing our Christmas services at St Andrew's by the Sea.
You are warmly invited to join us as the story unfolds.
Christmas Eve - Nine Lessons & Carols*
24 December, 7pm
Christmas Day - Eucharist** with Carols
25 December, 10:30am
Whether Advent finds you joyful, weary, grateful or somewhere in the mix of all that, you have a place with us this Christmas.
*Nine Lessons and Carols is a Christmas tradition that weaves together short readings from Scripture with much-loved Carols. The readings trace the story of God's promise and hope - from the prophets through to Mary, and finally to the birth of Christ. It's reflective, communal and carries a familiar warmth.
**The Eucharist is a gentle, welcoming service where we share bread and wine in remembrance of Jesus' last meal with his friends. At Christmas, it becomes a way of gathering around the Christ-child, receiving hope, blessing, and the promise of God-with-us.
Linocut artwork by Rev'd Sarah Lea West (vicar of St Andrew's)
