Christmas 2025

Christmas 2025 at KH

For Christmas this year we gave ourselves some long overdue new signs outside the church. To mark the season we added snow and a star - but our new bold lino-cut of the church matches the signs - where it sits beside our three messages about who we are: parish church, arts venue, community space. This is the time when we celebrate God coming to be with us in the person of Jesus Christ, born in obscurity, born in poverty, born for us.

Advent was an exciting time for us - we hosted a packed Nordoff & Robbins Charity Carol Service, with an excited congregation delighted to hear Nathan Evans and Hue & Cry and moved by the testimonies of those whose lives have been changed by music therapy. Our own Christian Aid Carol Service witnessed the unveiling of a new painting by KH member Iain Campbell of a scene from Gaza, in which a young girl steps from shadows into light. The image stayed up through our final services as a reminder of the painful realities of the world in which we live out our faith. December saw two more baptisms, school services and finally a candlelit Christmas Eve Service in which worshippers placed prayers in a crib as they waited for the dawning of Christmas Day.

We hope and pray that you had a blessed and a happy Christmas, but throughout Advent we also prayed for those within and beyond the congregation who we knew would find this Christmas hard.

Christmas is not just a day - our tree in church will stay up until Epiphany (6th January) when we remember the story of the Magi from the East following the star to find the infant Jesus. We will be singing carols and reflecting together on what God has done for us at Christmas and how God is with us in all things.

On Sunday 28th our worship will be led by William Gibson, a PhD student at University of Glasgow who is training to be a Church of Scotland minister. You are always welcome on a Sunday and always welcome to contact us if you would like to talk in person.