You found one of our lost sheep!
This little sheep has gone wandering a long way from home. Perhaps you can help to return him?
If you are under 18, show the sheep and this page to your parent or carer and ask for permission before you do anything more with it!
We would love your help to return the lost sheep this Christmas, and perhaps you would like to hear more about the real reason for Christmas when you do?
We will have some special rescued-sheep pens set out for you to put them in as you arrive! Otherwise, drop them off on our doorstep so they can wait out of the wind until we let them in.
You could bring the lost sheep along to some of our Christmas events! Like the Carols by Candlelight Service at 6.30pm on Sunday 15 December, or our Christmas Messy Church afternoon on Monday 16th December, or our Christingle Services on the afternoon of Christmas Eve. Find out more about these events and others here.
Thank you for finding this little one!
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Check out this brilliant brick-by-brick online Advent calendar. Each day you can click on the next block and uncover the next bit of the build-up to Christmas!
Did you know that there were sheep in the first Christmas story? Luke’s gospel records, that on the night that Jesus was born in Bethlehem “And there were shepherds living out in the fields near by, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy of all the people. Today in the town of David a saviour has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.'”
The shepherds were so excited by what they heard that we read, “The shepherds said to one another, ‘Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.’ So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph and, the baby, who was lying in the manger.” And they were so amazed and excited by what they heard that they spread the news, praising God because things were exactly as they had been told they would be.
Whatever you do this Christmas, we wish you a very happy Christmas, and we hope and pray that you will celebrate, like the shepherds did, the good news of great joy for all the people, that our saviour has been born!
