🌟🎄Advent & Christmas diary 2024/25 🎄🌟  (download and print this diary here)

5.January Sunday ‘home another way’

10am in Longforgan Church DD2 5HB: jointly Abernyte, Longforgan, Inchture&Kinnaird and Invergowrie congregations together (no services that morning in Abernyte, Inchture&Kinnaird and Invergowrie churches, only 10am in Longforgan)

12.January Sun.

Sunday morning services back to ‘normal’ times: 

9.30 am in Abernyte PH14 9SS, 

9.30 am in Inchture PH14 9RW, 

10 am in Auchterhouse DD3 0QT,

11 am in Longforgan DD2 5HB, 

11 am in Invergowrie DD2 5AD,

11 am in Muirhead DD2 5QN, with zoom live streaming (ask for link here)

and 10.30  am All Souls Invergowrie (Episcopal)

Support 24.Nov.-10.Dec.: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign: to help eradicate violence against women and girls.  Local Events and info here.  and wider here.

30.Nov. Sat.

10am-12noon Christmas Fayre in Longforgan

4 - 6pm: Messy Church ‘Advent Party’ with young people and their grown ups, contact Euan Smith, venue: Muirhead Church DD2 5QN 

1.Dec. Sun. 

9.30am each Abernyte and Inchture morning services for 1st Advent and also

11am each Longforgan and Invergowrie morning services

6.30pm Evening worship with communion offered, venue: Abernyte   Church PH14 9SS

2.Dec. Mon.   6pm Lights switch-on at Longforgan village war memorial

3.Dec. Tue. 7pm Ecumenical Advent service in St Ninian’s RC Church, Dundee DD2 4DA

4.Dec. Wed. 6pm Lights switch-on with Santa, Rainbows… in Invergowrie Parish Church grounds DD2 5AD, 6.30pm School fayre

5.Dec. Thu.  

4pm Christmas Fayre in Longforgan Primary School

and in Inchture, Nativity Trail sheets are now available from Inchture Post Office, Inchture church PH14 9RW and others 

Fri. 6th- Sun. 15th Dec. Teen Ranch’s Christmas Road   - best to book through Eventbrite. 

7.Dec. Sat. 10am Cheerful singing with the choir: Carols, cake and coffee; in Invergowrie halls DD2 5AD

7. Sat.-15. Sun. Nativity Trail challenge open (Inchture): with your sheet, seek and find the characters throughout Inchture, guided by clues: a tremendous treasure hunt !  Trail sheets from Inchture Church.

8.Dec. Sun. 

9.30am each Abernyte and Inchture morning services for 2nd Advent and also

11am each Longforgan and Invergowrie morning services

3pm ‘Quiet Christmas service’: when ‘normal’ Christmas is too ‘loud’ in Longforgan Church DD2 5HB

9.Dec. Mon. 6.30pm the very popular ‘Carols by candlelight’ inLongforgan Church DD2 5HB

15.Dec. Sunday ‘breaking news’

9.30am each Abernyte and Inchture morning services for 3rd Advent and also

11am each Longforgan and Invergowrie morning services

2.30pm Afternoon of events to top off Nativity Trail: cheerful Christmas Carols chosen by you in Inchture Church PH14 9RW: sing along or listen to others singing. Followed 3.30pm by refreshments, then 4pm switch on the outside Christmas Tree Lights and Nativity Trail prizes. Come along for all or part of the afternoon

22.Dec. Sunday ‘Interruption’ a version of an on-the-spot nativity play  

9.30am each Abernyte and Inchture morning services for 4th Advent and also

11am each Longforgan and Invergowrie morning services

3.30pm Christmas Sing-along with Big Band in Abernyte Church PH14 9SS and lots of joy. The specially gathered musicians have travelled near and far to cheer you with a diverse selection of songs both popular and traditional.

24.Dec. Tue. Christmas Eve ‘no room at the inn’

6.30pm all-age Christingle service in Invergowrie Parish Church DD2 5AD: hands-on, lit-up and lovely: young ones get to create a christingle. A very popular service in a large church that may get quite full.

11pm singing carols (your choice) and 11.30pm watch night service ‘no room at the inn’ in Inchture Church PH14 9RW. In this service we ‘bring in’ Christmas Day, reflecting Christ’s coming among us.

25.Dec. Wed. Christmas Day  ‘God in the manger’ 

10am joyful all-age service starting in Invergowrie Parish Church DD2 5AD : Service jointly with Invergowrie All Souls, Abernyte, Inchture and Longforgan churches. A happily mixed congregation starts the service at 10 in the parish church; half way through the service (around 10.25am) we all walk 50 meters over to All Souls Church where there will be communion on offer.

29.Dec. Sunday ‘God coming into the neighbourhood’ 

9.30am service in Abernyte PH14 9SS (no service that day in Inchture)

11am service in Invergowrie DD2 5AD (no service that day in Longforgan)