Reaching the loneliest older people at Christmas

Louise Morse  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Jan 2019
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Reaching the loneliest older people at Christmas

Louise Morse offers a timely challenge to the churches

Christmas is a great time to show the love of God and to tell the salvation story.

People who don’t normally come to church will turn up for Carol Services and often to church social events. Church members go to a lot of trouble putting up posters around town and invitations through letter-boxes. The angels must smile at their warm hearts and their Christmas-time outpouring of mince pies, cups of tea, cakes, goodness and kindness.

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