Over the first two weekends in December,
All Saints’ Sedgley will be hosting its annual
Christmas Tree Festival.
The event was started after a member of
the congregation had seen a similar idea
in a nearby village and thought All Saints’
could do their own. The festival aims to
encourage people in the community and
from further afield to come into church over
the Christmas period and experience the
warmth and joy of the season.
2016 will be the festival’s 8th year and
the theme is ‘charities’, with each tree
decorated to depict a different charity.
Church and community organisations
decorate the trees which are purchased
with donations from local businesses and
money raised from a quiz. There is also a
‘Tree of Memories’.
The Festival will open at 10am on Friday 2 Decemberwith a ‘Blessing of the Trees’,
followed by singing from local school choirs.The church is then open from 10am –
4pm on the Fridays and Saturdays and 2-4pm on the Sundays.Admission is free,
light refreshments will be available and any donations during the weekends will be given
to the Salvation Army.
Please pray for all those involved in the Christmas Tree Festival at Sedgley, for all those
who will visit and for everyone across the Diocese planning community events in the
run up to Christmas.
Malvern Deanery – Rural Dean: Peter Knight; Lay Chair: David Sparkes
Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich: Bishop Martin Seeley
Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney (Scotland): Bishop Robert Gillies
Diocese of Kansas (USA): Bishop Dean Wolfe
