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New directory for evensong services to launch next month

by Aaron James

choralevensong.org already has 350 churches signed up displaying their various evensong services, with every church in the country warmly invited to put their own on the website by the time the site officially launches on November 22nd.

It's hoped the directory will eventually encourage schoolchildren to visit evensong services, where they can see and hear Christianity in action rather simply reading about it in books.

It's possible the site will also be made into an app, however this is yet to be confirmed by its founder Dr Guy Hayward.

He told Premier: "It [evensong] really is one of the great cultural treasures of Britain and we need to publicise it and promote it as much as possible.

"Some cathedrals have incredible choirs that are paid proper professional wages to sing and they are truly trained professionals. It's totally free - and even if you want to give a donation it can be hard to know where the donation box is.

"They do it every day, some of the cathedrals, and yet five people turn up, ten people.

"It's a gift. It's almost for the ears of God."

Revd Stephen Tucker, of St John at Hampstead Church in north London, will be blessing a laptop with website open in the internet browser as part of the site's launch on November 22nd.

He told Premier's News Hour: "It's a service at the end of the day which is good for just sitting and thinking and listening and reflecting, hearing beautiful music.

"It's a service both for people who are heavily engaged in the church or people who might be on the fringes.

"I grew up going to church but as a teenager I stopped doing so.

"I got to university, starting going along to my college chapel in order to listen to the choir, and in that way I got involved in the chapel community and here I am, a vicar in Hampstead."

Listen to Premier's Aaron James speaking to Guy Hayward here:

Listen to Premier's Antony Bushfield speaking to Revd Stephen Tucker on the News Hour:

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