Dear Friends,

I always enjoy being in schools in the run-up to Christmas, as there is so much going on, and nativity plays always bring a tear to my eye! 

Every few years, I focus on the saying “Jesus is the reason for the season” in December assemblies, asking the children to remember it and to tell others.  It must work, as children accost me in the street or the supermarket to recite it to me!

The Christmas story is one most people know very well.  It will be...