This service is led by one of our Lay Readers, Kirk Hearder (Order of the Diocese of Toronto), with Music Director Zacharia Dekker at the organ. The eight lessons are read by Audi Geadah, Chris Cox, Graham French, Olive Coles, Zacharia Dekker, Patricia Finlayson, Greg Finlayson, and Jim Hodder, and are interspersed with Carols: Once in Royal David’s City; The People that in Darkness Sat; Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming; ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime; Angels from the Realms of Glory; Stay, My Child, My Body Sharing; Away in a Manger; While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night; and, See Amid the Winter’s Snow. Kirk reads the Collect for Christmas Day and The Prayers of the People.
