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Educator. Friend. Sister. Northerner. Born March 11, 1954, in Thunder Bay, Ont.; died July 3, 2023, in Ottawa, of metastatic breast cancer; aged 69.
Mary and Joseph (Helen and Marcus Rhodes) in the High Street. Members of the congregation at Sheldon Road Methodist Church have made a film of the nativity and set it in and around Chippenham. Writer and director David Stranks said, “We wanted to offer the people of the Chippenham area a chance to see a traditional Nativity which is set in their town today. So, the story and costumes are not ‘updated’ but the setting is definitely 2020. We even used a drone to film the shepherds’ fields next to the M4! It reminds us that it has meaning and relevance for all of us today.”
Mary and Joseph (Helen and Marcus Rhodes) in the High Street. Members of the congregation at Sheldon Road Methodist Church have made a film of the nativity and set it in and around Chippenham. Writer and director David Stranks said, “We wanted to offer the people of the Chippenham area a chance to see a traditional Nativity which is set in their town today. So, the story and costumes are not ‘updated’ but the setting is definitely 2020. We even used a drone to film the shepherds’ fields next to the M4! It reminds us that it has meaning and relevance for all of us today.”