EVERYONE is welcome for the Festival of Carols and Culture in Nine Languages with Nine Lessons.
The event is getting more popular each year and is based on the traditional nine Bible readings and nine carols but incorporates carols sung by the many different cultures represented in Mount Gambier/Berrin today in their traditional languages.
This year, carols will be sung by:
-St. Martin’s School
-Pheonix (Swahili)
-South Africans (Afrikaans)
-Sri Lankans (Sinhalese)
-Africans (Bantu)
-The Last Choir (French + Ukrainian)
-Lutheran Church (German)
-Children (Spanish Feliz Navidad)
-Christ Church choir
With lessons from Genesis, Isaiah, Micah, Matthew, Luke and John, bible readings will be delivered by religious leaders and will include a reading by City of Mount Gambier mayor Lynette Martin, Member of the Legislative Council Ben Hood and a special reading using braille.
Along with focusing on the real meaning of Christmas, the birth of Christ, Father Neil Fernando said they were trying to include more cultures represented in the city every year at this event.
“The service is an opportunity for people from the many different cultures represented here to come together and sing carols from their original homelands,” he said.
A Nativity scene and the story of salvation will be enacted by Anglican Church Sunday School children.
A collection to support the Mayor’s Christmas Appeal will be taken during the service.
The event will again be held at the Christ Church Anglican Church on Sunday, December 3, from 6.30 to 8pm.
