Advent Two: Light from the tower

 

It was a great joy to present a show on Radio Christmas this week.  I was well looked after by the production crew and had just a small insight on how hard everyone is working on this year’s project.

Radio Christmas is broadcasting from 1^st to 24^th December, and this year it is from our Tower Room at Amersham Free Church. It’s been a real joy to have Duncan and his team around the place this month and we do hope the station will raise valuable funds for the ongoing work of Street Kids Direct, working in Central America.

Churches have traditionally been built with spiers and towers as a way of, architecturally speaking, pointing to God.  AFC has just a small tower, built in the somewhat austere architecture of the early 1960s.  On its top storey is a boiler room, the one below has, at various times, been used as a Youth ‘Den’ and more recently as a storeroom.  So, how wonderful that during these days of December it has become a vibrant and bustling centre of activity, set up with all the latest technology, enabling a radio station with a Christian foundation, to broadcast.

And all of that seems to me to be wonderfully appropriate.  On the outside I’m always pleased to see out tower has a large cross on it.  Now, on the inside, through Radio Christmas, it is broadcasting the love and light we all need to tune into at this time of year. Enter the studio on any day of the week and you’ll hear laughter, prayerful concern, supportive conversation, and uplifting music.  Indeed, something of God’s love and light is pulsating everyday this Advent from the tower of Amersham Free Church!