Christmas in Kingston

Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat, or so goes the old Christmas tune. If you are a student at Kingston University in 2008, Christmas isn’t best summed up by a fattening bird but rather by a range of emotions.

Firstly for those returning home after their first term away from home, Christmas is a time of home cooking, catching up with old friends and getting some clean clothes! For other students, away from home or not looking forward to that return visit, the Christmas celebrations only come to represent what they are missing out on, providing a reminder to what others have that they don’t.

There is another Christmas story, one that draws together those two strands in one moment of both vulnerability and hope. This is a tale of a baby in a manger, a baby who was the son of God, that had taken himself to the margins to be born amongst a poor and broken people but in so doing brought a new hope as he paved the way for God and Man to be brought back together in a wonderful new kind of life.

This month, this Christmas story of vulnerability and hope will be talked about celebrated in churches across Kingston Borough. It will be brought alive in traditional and modern songs, shared in words through candles and represented by loving kindness. Then on Christmas day, for those students without somewhere else to go, it will be represented by the churches who are themselves offering lunch and friendship to any students left in Kingston whilst others have returned home.

So instead of waiting for the goose to get fat this Christmas, why don’t you take time to go and take part in the Christmas story at a church near you. Click here and you can download the Christmas service timetables. Then if you wanted to have somewhere to go on Christmas Day and join others for Christmas lunch then email us at Christmas@oxygen-online.org to register your interest.

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