Believe!

Click the photograph to see more of the 2011 Carol Concert

Believe!
Not even a power cut could de-rail the 3rd annual community carol concert at Ayr entitled Believe!

As an unexpected bonus, the concert, featuring the Corps’ Community Gospel Choir, Kilmarnock Concert Brass Ensemble and the Gordon Anderson Praise Band morphed into a “Carols by Candlelight” evening of praise and adoration of the Christ-child.

The 700-strong congregation was treated to some fantastic singing from the Gospel Choir and a collection of £1,350 was uplifted to support the Army’s work in Ukraine and a local homelessness project.

Alongside the singing of favourites such as Hark the Herald Angels Sing and Starry Night, the evening also included more contemporary numbers and concluded with a superb finale – Rebekah Parkhill thrilling the packed church with her angelic singing of “He is Immanuel”, followed by Bobby Irvine’s rendition of “Have yourself a merry little Christmas” and a final carol “O Come all ye faithful”.

It certainly is a great time to Believe – in God and in His plan for His Corps at Ayr.

In the bleak midwinter

Join with us on Midwinter’s Eve as we ponder again the Christmas Story as it is presented through the reading of nine passages of the Holy Scriptures and sung in many of your favourite carols, including Once in Royal David’s City, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Silent Night, O Come all ye Faithful and Hark the Herald Angels Sing.

Set in the beautiful Tudor Gothic Church recently purchased by the Salvation Army, this service follows the traditional format of the Carol Service produced by the choir of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. Each Christmas Eve since 1928 the service has been broadcast from the Chapel by the BBC.

The Dean of the Chapel, Eric Milner-White explains, “The main theme of the service is the development of the loving purposes of God as seen through the windows and words of the Bible.”

The centre of the service is still found by those who will go ‘in heart and mind’ and who consent to follow where the story leads.