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Wepray Oct - Nov 2020 WEPRAY OCT - NOV 2020 Praying for each other in Essex & East London #chelmsdioprayers Chelmsford Diocese Prayer Diary 1 October “A praying church is a living organism, powered by the love of God, and directed by his will.” (Susan Sayers) Thu 1 Remegius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, Social Reformer, 1885 Colchester Episcopal Area Roger Morris, Area Bishop; Ruth Patten, Archdeacon of Colchester; Robin King, Archdeacon of Stansted. Chaplains: Sarah Batts-Neale, Essex University; Matthew Ling, Linda Peall and Hilary The Porch Pantry: Community and Platts, East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Terry Walker, St Helena Hospice; Robert Burles, Stansted Airport. Church together in difficult times The Dioceses of Perth (Australia), Chhattisgarh (North India) and Chicago (The Episcopal Church) The Porch Pantry at St Peter and St Paul, of Mersea Outdoors, Paul Button, hosted West Mersea, has been running for just a hugely popular quiz on Facebook every The Deanery of Witham over two years and has seen a significant week during lockdown and asked quizzers Fri 2 Area Dean: Simon Garwood. Lay Chair: Mike Robinson. increase in demand since the start of to donate to the pantry online, raising almost the pandemic. £400. Another local resident has been West Mersea (St Peter and St Paul) w East Mersea (St Edmund), making and selling face masks in aid of the Peldon (St Mary Vn), Great & Little Wigborough St Stephen & St Nicholas Items such as cereal and tinned goods Porch Pantry and has raised a further £400. Clergy: Vacancy (R), Terry Walker (A). LLM: Anne Owen. are left in the porch of the church allowing The Dioceses of Peru (South America) and Chichester (England) people to help themselves to supplies To date, their Just Giving page has raised with anonymity. Furthermore, no eligibility over £4,000. Donations help replenish the Sat 3 George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958 voucher are required, and no one oversees pantry with essential groceries and enable Each of us has different and contrasting stories to tell about the last six visitors. Indeed, nobody really knows if the church to support families. months and our present experience. But for all of us, the need to be visitors to the porch are donating, collecting Volunteer, Emma Cornwell, says “It is heart cared for, supported, encouraged, held is fundamental to our well-being food, reading notices or looking at the breaking to know that so many people are personally and as a community. This is challenging territory and we will all Prayer Cross. struggling; yet at the same time, heart- make many mistakes along the way. At the beginning of the pandemic, the warming to see our community pull together. church successfully applied to Essex County Mersea residents never cease to amaze Note the importance of simple acts of kindness, attention to each other’s Council for emergency food bank funding me with their generosity and support, needs, paying attention to our own, nurturing those things in our lives that and was awarded £500 to boost supplies. particularly during such challenging times. help each of us and all of us together to live more fully out of a place of Although the main body of the church was We’ve received some incredible food and abundance. Finding water in a dry valley, as Psalm 84 says “Blessed are closed during lockdown, the porch doors financial donations from the community, those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion, remained open for people Island businesses and clubs. The Porch who going through the barren valley find there a spring, and the early rains to access the pantry. Pantry would not be possible without the will clothe it with blessing.” wonderful people of Mersea, it is a The Porch Pantry is greatly supported by The Dioceses of Peshawar (Pakistan), Chotanagpur (North India) and true testament to Community and the local community. Operations Manager Koforidua (West Africa) Church Together.” 2 To donate visit www.justgiving.com/campaign/merseaislandporchpantry Please refer to the Notes and Abbreviations on the back cover. 3 Harvest Sun 4 The Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity October Animal Welfare Sunday: Pray for all charities involved in the care and Most of the agricultural land in our challenges for an industry already protection of our animals, and for veterinary surgeons and all those diocese has now yielded its harvest. dealing with the fallout of COVID-19 who work for the welfare of animals. Each harvest, I follow the age-old and anxieties over post-Brexit PRAY for The Anglican Church of Tanzania, The Most Revd Dr Maimbo tradition of picking an ear of wheat and trading conditions. rubbing it between my hands until the Mndolwa, Archbishop. But I was also moved by the sight of the grain is separated from the stem and tiny grains of corn resting in my palm. Mon 5 Fingringhoe (St Andrew) w East Donyland [or Rowhedge] (St Lawrence), the husk loosened from the grain. A They represented such a determination Abberton (St Andrew) w Langenhoe (St Mary) Clergy: Vacancy (PiC). gentle blow then lifts the chaff away to grow to maturity during this year’s Fingringhoe School: Bill Aylett (Interim HT). revealing the precious grains of wheat. extreme weather conditions. Rowhedge St Lawrence School: Kerry Malcolm (HT). This year the ear of wheat was The ear of wheat inspired this poem The Dioceses of Peterborough (England) and Christ the King very small, confirming poor harvest dedicated to all farmers managing the (Southern Africa) predictions. The single stem held impact of the poor wheat yields a sense of foreboding: low yields, Great Totham (St Peter) w Little Totham (All Saints) and Goldhanger of Harvest 2020. Tue 6 reduced food production and financial (St Peter) Clergy: Tracey Caswell (PIC), Susan Godsmark (AC). The Dioceses of Phulbani (North India), Christchurch (Aotearoa NZ & Polynesia) and Kolhapur (North India) Wed 7 Hatfield Peverel (St Andrew) w Ulting (All Saints) Clergy: Stephen Northfield (V), Derek Clark-Mayers (AC). Reader: Charles Cope. St Andrew’s Junior School: Rebecca Black (HT). The Dioceses of Pittsburgh (The Episcopal Church ) and Chubu (Japan) Thu 8 Kelvedon (St Mary the Virgin) and Feering (All Saints) Ears of Harvest The Farmer of the world promised all Clergy: Simon Garwood (AD, PIC). This ear of wheat plucked from the farm would be gathered; Kelvedon St Mary’s Primary Academy: Michael Walsh (HT). Now nestled and protected in gently The smallest, the weakest; all to cupped palm. Feering School: Bridgette Gough (Executive HT). be treasured. Prayer-poised hands roll this ear The Dioceses of Polynesia (Aotearoa NZ & Polynesia), Clogher (Ireland) This wheat in my palm hides priceless creed; of unknown, and Cochin (South India) With the faith of the Farmer, grain Kernels exposed, chaff softly blown. becomes seed. Fri 9 Denys, Bishop of Paris, and his Companions, Martyrs, c.250 Smaller and fewer, the grains of this harvest; Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253 As finger-grip loosens, where will the Each precious and treasured, not to be seed fall? North Blackwater Parishes: Tollesbury (St Mary Vn), Salcott Virley (St Mary tarnished. Vn), Tolleshunt D’Arcy (St Nicholas), and Tolleshunt Major (St Nicholas) Amidst rocks or thorns or the good soil These tiny grains, what do they hold? Clergy: Tracey Caswell (PIC). Readers: Isabel Adcock, Tim Whitfield. of the soul? Feeding the body, nourishing the soul? Tolleshunt D’Arcy St Nicholas School: Louise Eastbrook (HT). The Dioceses of Popondota (Papua New Guinea) and Coimbatore Revd Canon Janet Nicholls - Rural Adviser and Agricultural Chaplain 4 (South India) 5 Sat 10 Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644 October Thomas Traherne, Poet, Spiritual Writer, 1674 Crossing borders is costly. We have to leave behind things that we treasure. And we will definitely have to encounter people and cultures that are different, where we don’t speak the language fluently. But each of those moments is an invitation to grow, to understand more deeply, and indeed to discover more fully who we are ourselves. When we stand on a boundary line, at a border, at a threshold, certainly we are anxious. But God is always inviting us to walk into that new future. Indeed, God is already standing on the other side of the border. The Dioceses of Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), Colombia (The Episcopal Church) and Kollam-Kottarakkara (South India) Celebrating Lay Ministry Sun 11 The Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity Give thanks for the work and ministries of our hospices who bring comfort On 10 October, the diocese will celebrate for lay ministers as well as the and relief to patients and families in times of physical and spiritual need all forms of lay ministry and Bishop Peter Course in Christian Studies. and stress. Pray for our hospice chaplains. will licence our new Licenced Lay Ministers Caroline said: “I’m really looking forward PRAY for The Church of the Province of Uganda, The Most Revd Stephen (LLMs) at a socially distanced service at to the Lay Ministry Celebration service and Samuel Kaziimba, Archbishop Chelmsford Cathedral. even though we won’t all be able to come Mon 12 Wilfrid of Ripon, Bishop, Missionary, 709 The Lay Ministry Celebration service will together in the usual way I hope lots of be livestreamed so that people can join in people join in the celebrations by watching Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845 online. The guest preacher at the service online. Congratulations to all our new LLMs Edith Cavell, Nurse, 1915 will be Carrie Myers, Lay Ministry Officer who have heard God’s call. May they be Wickham Bishops (St Bartholomew) w Little Braxted (St Nicolas) for the Church of England.
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