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The Christmas lights are up around Ickenham, with the Festival Team and local shopkeepers doing their best to put on a show for us, ahead of their special Festive Community Evening on Friday 9th December. Both churches will be taking active roles that weekend. There’s carol singing in the Village (on Friday) the display of nativity scenes at the URC (also Friday), the St Giles’ Christmas Tree Festival (Friday and Saturday), the St Giles’ Market (Saturday), and the Tree of Remembrance at St Giles’ (Saturday and Sunday).
ICN leads with the story of some more new lights – those now brightening the path in the St Giles’ churchyard.
Elsewhere, we can read of the record breaking success of this year’s Operation Christmas Child appeal here in our midst. And we find out about Ickenham’s connection to Luke Skywalker’s robot friends...!
We are pleased to welcome URC Minister Bernie Collins back from his three month sabbatical, most of it spent in Papua New Guinea, where he and his wife Gwen spent 16 years from 1974 to 1990. And it was lovely to hear of the joy of his time there.
And there is much more to read about in this eight page colour edition. Details of all the extra Christmas services in both churches are listed. Do please come along and join us at any of them. You will be very welcome.
Read about these, and other articles in the December edition, by clicking on ‘This Month’s Newsletter’ on the Menu Bar at the top of the page. And from there, you can reach all the regular features too.
Please remember there is no separate January edition of ICN. Articles for the next issue – the February one - should be with the team by 12 noon on 13th January. Please send any articles to me at editor@ickenhamchurchnews.co.uk,
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In the meantime, the team join me in wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
 Heather Piper (Editor)
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