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The Greetings, beloved listeners and Merry Christmas.

Here's the Reverend Eve Pitts telling us a little bit about Christmas in Birchfield, North Birmingham.

Yeah, okay, that's fine. So welcome to my home. This is where I hung out when I'm pretending to be a vicar.

So my name is Eve, everybody called me Reverend Eve. I'm sure they call me other things, but it's never to my face.

So I'm known as Reverend Eve.

People say to me, what do I call you?

And do I call you father?

No, no, don't call me father. I won't be amused if you do.

So I've been around here now for nearly 11 years, no just over 11 years, you know Dave.

And it's been a roller coaster of a ride. It's been an amazing experience, you know, that God has a sense of humor.

I always say to people, if you don't believe that God has a sense of humor,

just actually take a look at yourself in the mirror and you realize that

God's kind of killing over laughing when we, in our pomposity and all of that stuff.

It's strange, really is strange because this time last year we didn't, we weren't

able to have Christmas in our church building here at Holy Trinity in Birchfield, where nobody

wants to live. So when I came here and people still ask me, are you enjoying being around

here every and even?

And I say, well actually, yes, I do.

I didn't grow up in the inner city,

contrary to what many people think that all black people live in the inner city.

I know I grew up in Nottingham and I'm a Nottingham girl.

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