Service of Carols Spreads Joy

Girton Grammar School’s long-standing Christmas gift-giving tradition filled Churches in the region with generosity and song on Thursday 1st December.

More than 2,000 students from Prep to Year 11 attended six Churches around Bendigo at Girton’s annual Service of Carols, accompanied by families and staff, in an opportunity to reflect as a community on the meaning of Christmas.

Hundreds of gifts were left at the altars and under Christmas trees to be distributed to flood-hit communities and people in need by Central Bendigo and Axedale Uniting Church ‘Cuppa with Company-Christmas Outreach’, Kangaroo Flat/Uniting Care Christmas Outreach, St Vincent de Paul and St Luke’s Anglicare.

Students sang and performed at each Church, with Junior School students dressed as traditional biblical characters and angels. 

• Forest Street Uniting Church, Forest Street, Bendigo
• St Andrew’s Uniting Church, Myers Street, Bendigo
• Bendigo Baptist Church, MacIvor Highway, Jonortoun
• Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Keck Street, Flora Hill
• St Joseph’s Catholic Church, 44 Russell St, Quarry Hill 
• St Killian's Catholic Church, McCrae Street, Bendigo

Thank you to the staff, students, and parents for their hard work in planning these special events.