‘I mean, have an eye for the kid in yourself. Fear, the help you sometimes need, but also the comfort you can offer someone else. You must not only stand up for yourself, but for others as well. You are only half, you always need the other.’ It’s difficult for Veldman to estimate how many visitors will come to the service: ‘At the last physical service on Christmas Eve, there were about six hundred people in the church. I expect such a number again, but it may be that the Christmas night shift has disappeared from the system. That people now have a different habit.’
