In a crowded and joyful series of services and celebrations in the run up to Christmas, none was more special than the Crib Service at Henshaw on Christmas Eve, when the children participated in the telling of the Nativity story and placed the crib figures into the crib.   Not only were there excellent readings by the children, but also a “first performance” from an embryonic children’s choir.  The church was full of parents and grandparents, and all participated lustily in singing some well known and loved carols.