Interface Where Church and Community Meet February 2013
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Interface where Church and Community meet February 2013 Interface SPECIAL WEB EDITION Full Colour New Year Honour for Little Dunmow Lady The Parish Magazine for Felsted, 50p Flitch Green and Little Dunmow IN THIS EDITION The Editor Church Directory Church Services This Month ......... 4 Introduces www.felstedchurch.org.uk Sunday for Younger People .......... 4 Weekday Worship ........................ 4 It would be wrong not to From the desk of the Vicar ............ 5 begin by mentioning the Licensed Ministers: Our Charity for this month ............. 6 New Year Honour Vicar Reverend Colin Taylor 01371 820242 [email protected] Congratulations Kathleen Carhart .. 7 awarded to Kathleen Carhart BEM. There are Readers Sonia Merritt 01371 823046 Liz Paxton 07932 160594 Do You Need Help? ...................... 8 more details on page 7 about a well deserved Jo Pratt 01371 821620 Colin Priestman 01371 820197 Poppy Appeal 2012 ...................... 8 A Christmas Memory or Two ........ 9 recognition of years of service. Robert Stone 01371 821477 Operation Christmas Child ............ 10 Also in this edition of Interface of lots of others Ambulance Service Community who are keen to serve, including Ambulance Parochial Church Council Officers: Responders .................................. 11 Service first responders, page 11, to good Send A Cow .................................. 11 FELSTED LITTLE DUNMOW neighbours willing to help, page 8, and many, Felsted Friendship Club ................ 12 Churchwardens many others. Basil Jefferies 01371 821124 Joyce Stone 01371 820564 An Interview with the Eddie Kelly 01371 820018 Vacancy Lord of the Manor ......................... 13 There is also lots going on this month so you Secretary Felsted Garden Club .................... 14 won’t need to be stuck at home during the Sue Kelly 01371 823100 Sonia Merritt 01371 823046 Events Pages ....................... 15-19 dark evenings, so please check our events Treasurer Reader Reviews ........................... 20 pages 15-19. Ian Butler 01371 821175 Ian Shaw 01371 820372 Felsted Dog show 2013? .............. 21 Robert Stone A Seasonal Menu ......................... 21 Editor Other Useful Contact Details: District Councillors’ Report ........... 22 The Natural World ........................ 23 Organist Crèche The Misadventures of Noah .......... 23 Andrew Beaton 01371 821243 Paula Hatcher 01371 821450 Felsted Youth Club History ........... 24 Choir Junior Church The Listening Ear Bryony Rees 01371 821990 Paula Hatcher 01371 821450 7 Counselling Service ...................... 25 Fabric Officer Rock Solid Save the Date: Felsted 450 .......... 25 Felsted—Jamie Mackay 01371 820483 Sylvia Taylor 01371 820242 From the Unofficial Felsted 9 Lt Dunmow—Ted Bryant 01371 820995 YPC Ed and Helen Fenning Recycling Centre .......................... 26 [email protected] Felsted Book Sales ....................... 26 Bell Ringing Tower Captain Felsted Youth Club ....................... 27 David Learmonth 01371 820398 Flitch Green Youth Club ............... 27 WEB EDITION Verger Gift Aid Secretary On the Buses ................................ 27 Eddie Kelly 01371 820018 Ian Shaw 01371 820372 Church Flowers ............................ 28 Flowers & Cleaning Rotas ............ 28 Magazine Team: See last month’s edition of Interface in Parish Registers ........................... 28 full colour at www.felstedchurch.org.uk Editor Robert Stone 01371 821477 [email protected] And Finally .................................... 29 Sub Editor David Learmonth 01371 820398 Local Services Directory ............... 30 Trade Directory Editor 01371 821477 Trade Directory ……………...... 31-32 DEADLINE FOR NEXT EDITION Distribution David Woods 01371 821665 Noon on Sunday 2nd February 2013 email: [email protected] Cover Photograph: Kathleen Carhart BEM by Ed Itor 3 SERVICES IN FEBRUARY From the desk of the Vicar Felsted Little Dunmow Dear Friends presses on to the cross (Luke 22:39-46). How can we be more courageous ? Holy Cross Church The Priory Church Courage in 2013 By growing in godly character, so that we Sun 3rd 9:00 am Holy Communion BCP 11:00 am Holy Communion are secure in our identity in Christ. 2nd Sunday It pretty amazing. 6:00 pm Evening Prayer before Lent Rowing, alone, 3000 By taking every opportunity to practise 9:00 am Morning Prayer BCP Sun 10th 9:00 am Holy Communion CW miles across the courage; making small courageous 11:00 am Morning Prayer Sunday Atlantic Ocean. As you read this, Felsted’s decisions now that lend strength to making before Lent Charlie Pitcher is attempting to do just that larger courageous decisions in the future. in fewer than 40 days which has been Weds 13th So, where can we exercise courage in our Ash done before. 8:00 pm Holy Communion Wednesday lives? What fears do we need to face? The physical challenge Charlie faces is What decisions have we been putting off? 9:00 am Holy Communion BCP Sun 17th huge but even more impressive, for me, is What small act of courage now can help 11:00 am Morning Prayer 1st Sunday 10.30 am Morning Prayer BCP the immense courage it takes to even prepare us for the unknown bigger of Lent attempt such a feat. courageous act that is around the corner? 9:00 am Holy Communion CW Sun 24th 2nd Sunday Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It is the Good on you Charlie! 11:00 am All Age Service of Lent 4:00 pm Priory Prayers ability to press on despite the fear and Charlie is demonstrating this sort of SUNDAY FOR YOUNGER PEOPLE: courage in abundance. But what courage might we show this year? “Little Doves” Crèche for children 0-5 years available from 10:45 am. Junior Church welcomes all children aged 5-11, and meets each week, except on the Courage to do what needs to be done fourth Sunday of each month. Junior Church takes place during the 11:00 am Service at whatever the opposition. Felsted. For details contact Paula Hatcher 01371 821450. Courage to delay making a decision Rock Solid is a group for young people aged 11-14, meeting weekly from 10:30 am at the when everyone is pressing for it to be Vicarage. Contact Sylvia Taylor for further details 01371 820242. made, because you simply don’t have YPC is a group for teenagers aged 14 - 18. Contact Ed and Helen Fenning for details sufficient information or time to make [email protected] a wise choice. Courage to shape a church culture around gospel values, rather than WEEKDAY WORSHIP allow the world’s values to determine Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, how you do things. as working for the Lord, not for human masters Courage to challenge repeated Colossians 3 v 23 unhelpful behaviour. With Best Wishes Wednesdays at 9:30 am. Holy Communion Service in Holy Cross Church, Felsted. Jesus exhibits such courage as he rids the Fridays at 9:15 am in the Priory Church, Little Dunmow. Prayers for the community. temple of money changers (Mark 11:15), Home Groups. There are home groups meeting throughout the week. as he talks with an outcast Samaritan Details are available from Rev. Colin Taylor. woman at the well (John 4), as he Holy Communion at Home. Please contact Rev. Colin Taylor if you know anyone who challenges the prevailing view of would like to receive Holy Communion. leadership (Matthew 20:20-28), as he 4 5 Ten percent of the church income is given to a range of charities. Each is featured here monthly and on a board at the church. This month it is the turn of :- For example, in Guatemala MAF supports a Bible teaching programme, training those who lead congregations in the villages. And in Arnhem Land MAF Mission Aviation Fellowship provides flights for local Aboriginal ministers, enabling them to share the When you give towards the cost of flying Gospel in remote areas. MAF planes, you are helping ensure urgent aid and Christian care reach those Mission whose need is greatest. A great number of those MAF fly are mission organisations who seek to bring Enabling the vital work of others both physical and spiritual care to those in Congratulations Her Majesty’s Service, URGENT, MAF work in close partnership with over isolated regions. One such is Tearfund, Personal, from the Cabinet Office. When I 1,000 missions, providing flights and the Christian relief and development Kathleen Carhart BEM opened the letter I read ‘In Confidence’ logistical support for their outreach to agency working with a global network of by Robert Stone Dear Madam, The Prime Minister has communities in developing nations. churches to help eradicate poverty. asked me to inform you….. signed: Your Last year Little Dunmow’s Kathleen Obedient Servant.’ Not having absorbed These missions include aid agencies, MAF make regular flights to Korr, northern Carhart celebrated her 90th birthday and all it said I read it again, and an answer missions, relief and development Kenya, in support of Tearfund's education was delighted that so many family and was requested by return so two days later organisations, government departments, and food distribution amongst the Rendille friends joined her to celebrate. What she having recovered from the shock I replied local churches and other national groups. and Samburu. MAF also supports didn’t know was that in secret the same accepting the honour of a BEM.” Their work covers healthcare, emergency Tearfund's work in northern Uganda and family members and friends had been relief, development and the bringing of southern Sudan. writing to the Prime Minister to ask for her The phone started ringing and letters of God's word. many years of selfless service to congratulation arriving over the new year, community and charity to be recognised and Kathleen still can’t quite believe it has Church officially. happened. MAF seeks to promote the growth of the church, working So it came as a complete surprise in There will be an official investiture in with indigenous churches and December when a letter arrived from the March by the Lord Lieutenant of Essex, groups to enable spiritual Cabinet Office informing her that she had Lord Petre, followed by an invitation to a outreach.