Santa and Christmas

How to make Christmas Mincemeat for your own Christmas Tarts is one of the recipes you will find in this website for Christmas and Santa. Maybe your are more interested in where to find Christmas Presents or Christmas Cards, you will find links from here for those as well. And, a few tips about what life is like in New Zealand at Christmas time and maybe a photo of our Santa...so you can compare!!

Sunday, December 03, 2006

White Christmas

'White Christmas' is a 1940 Irving Berlin tune, it is the biggest-selling Christmas song. It has sold over 100,000,000 copies. Bing Crosby sang 'White Christmas' and this version sold over 31,000,000 copies. 'White Christmas' won the Oscar award for best song of 1942...


When people think of 'White Christmas', most would probably think of the well known song that Bing Crosby made the most popular version of.

Back in 1914 a new type of service was introduced into some Protestant Sunday Schools. The 'White Christmas' service encouraged children to bring gifts for the needy. To this day the tradition continues. People collect canned food, toys and money to help the poor enjoy Christmas a little more. The custom was to wrap the gifts in white paper and some churches referred to the service as 'White Gift Sunday'...

Christmas Carol - O Come All Ye Faithful

O Come All Ye Faithful

O come, all ye faithful,
Joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem
Come and behold Him,Born the King of Angles!

O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.

Sing choirs of angles;
Sing in exultation
Sing all ye citizens of heaven above;
Glory to God –
In the highest.

Chorus

Yea, Lord, we greet Thee,
Born this happy morning;
Jesus, to Thee be the glory given;
Word of the Father,
Now in the flesh appearing.

Chorus.