Bus Shelter Nativity in Littletown
A nationwide advertising campaign caught the imagination of people around the Circuit and we raised sufficient funds to sponsor three bus shelter ads. The poster campaign organised by ChurchAds.Net used an arresting image of the traditional nativity scene set in a modern bus shelter with the slogan 'Christmas starts with Christ'.
Pressure from commercial advertisers meant poster sites close to sponsoring churches couldn't be guaranteed. So members of St. Andrew's Methodist Church, who had generously supported the Circuit appeal, were delighted to hear that a bus shelter outside the nearby primary school would display the poster for the fortnight before Christmas.
Children from the school had already performed their nativity play and sung carols for the church's Friendship Club. So the Circuit arranged to sing carols outside the school (and bus shelter) at the close of the final day of term. Unfortunately, ice and snow made the pavements treachorous that day and only four intrepid carol-singers managed the journey. The school came to the rescue and, as parents assembled at the school gate, the Year 6 class sang a selection of carols.
And so, as the school term ended and the Christmas holidays began, the focus of attention was the birth of a baby in a stable/shelter.
We can't publish close-up photograghs of the children but this slightly surreal photo catches a glimpse of the singers with the bus shelter poster reflecting snowy rooftops and some of the onlookers - including a boy in a white hoodie holding a snowball! We can report that no snowballs were thrown during the carol-singing!!