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IInterfacnterfacee where Church and Community meet June 2013 Interface SPECIAL WEB EDITION Full Colour 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 I went along to the book From the desk of the Vicar ............ 5 sale at the end of April, at Licensed Ministers: Our Charity for this month ............. 6 the Memorial Hall. In fact Vicar Reverend Colin Taylor 01371 820242 [email protected] Felsted Parish Plan Group ............ 7 my daughter and I arrived Readers Sonia Merritt 01371 823046 Liz Paxton 07932 160594 All Keyed Up ................................. 7 before the doors opened so we were sure of Jo Pratt 01371 821620 Colin Priestman 01371 820197 School Report ............................... 8 some bargains. That event seemed to sum Robert Stone 01371 821477 Golden Wedding ........................... 9 up village life: lots of generous people sharing Parochial Church Council Officers: Felsted Garden Club .................... 10 their time, possessions and money to help FELSTED LITTLE DUNMOW Events Pages ....................... 11 - 15 those in need. Keep up the good work, David Churchwardens Felsted Women’s Institute ............ 16 and team. Basil Jefferies 01371 821124 Joyce Stone 01371 820564 Palm Sunday ................................ 16 Eddie Kelly 01371 820018 David Stone as above Felsted Friendship Club ................ 17 David Gregory gets another mention with his Secretary District Councillors’ Report ........... 18 wife dawn on page 9, and Marilyn Smith who Sue Kelly 01371 823100 Sonia Merritt 01371 823046 The Natural World ........................ 19 wrote our article even managed to persuade Treasurer Entertaining Angels ...................... 19 them to share their wedding photograph with Ian Butler 01371 821175 Ian Shaw 01371 820372 Flowers & Cleaning Rotas ............ 20 us. Don’t they both look young! Cheques should be made payable to: Parish Registers ........................... 20 Felsted P.C.C. Little Dunmow P.C.C. Tell Us Your Story ........................ 20 Can I end by mentioning my own appeal for Sort code: 40:52:40 acct no: 00006007 Sort code: 40:52:40 acct no: 00010225 And Finally .................................... 21 more of your stories on page 20. Please do Local Services Directory ............... 22 drop me a line. Other Useful Contact Details: Trade Directory …………...... 23 - 24 Robert Stone Organist Crèche Editor Andrew Beaton 01371 821243 Lesley Taylor 01371 820242 Choir Junior Church 16 Bryony Rees 01371 821990 Rachel Peart 01371 822731 Fabric Officer Rock Solid Felsted—Jamie Mackay 01371 820483 Sylvia Taylor 01371 820242 Lt Dunmow—Ted Bryant 01371 820995 YPC Ed and Helen Fenning [email protected] Bell Ringing Tower Captain David Learmonth 01371 820398 Verger Gift Aid Secretary Eddie Kelly 01371 820018 Ian Shaw 01371 820372 See last month’s edition of Interface in Magazine Team: full colour at www.felstedchurch.org.uk 17 Editor Robert Stone 01371 821477 [email protected] Sub Editor David Learmonth 01371 820398 Trade Directory Editor 01371 821477 LARGE PRINT EDITION DEADLINE FOR NEXT EDITION Distribution David Woods 01371 821665 AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Noon on Sunday 9th June 2013 TO EDITOR email: [email protected] Cover Photograph: Barley Barn, Little Dunmow by Ed Itor 3 SERVICES IN JUNE From the desk of the Vicar Felsted Little Dunmow Dear Friends So, it’s worth asking ourselves some tough Holy Cross Church The Priory Church questions from time to time. Would our Holiday plans lives really be diminished if we didn’t have any exotic holidays? Would our children’s Sun 2nd 9:00 am Holy Communion BCP 11:00 am Holy Communion CW 1st Sunday Human beings love lives be damaged if they didn’t have the 6:00 pm Evening Prayer BCP after Trinity trying something fresh. latest game, see the latest movie, visit the national treasure or experience a certain 9:00 am Morning Prayer BCP Sun 9th 9:00 am Holy Communion CW Positive new culture? 2nd Sunday experience is actively sought. And why 11:00 am Morning Prayer after Trinity not? Paul had learned to be content in any and 9:00 am Holy Communion BCP Sun 16th “I want my children to experience another every circumstance (Philippians 4:12). 11:00 am Morning Prayer 3rd Sunday 10.30 am Morning Prayer BCP culture”. “As a family, we think it’s And that’s because he had grasped what after Trinity important to see the great wonders of our Jesus had taught… that fullness of life is 9:00 am Holy Communion CW Sun 23rd planet etc.” “I want a full life, a fun life, and found in relationship with God, nowhere 11:00 am All Age Service 4th Sunday that means grabbing every opportunity else (John 10:10). 4:00 pm Priory Prayers after Trinity with both hands”. No wonder of the world is as wonderful as 9:00 am Holy Communion BCP Sun 30th There is nothing intrinsically wrong with its creator. 11:00 am Morning Prayer 5th Sunday 10.30 am Morning Prayer wanting to gallop along a beach on a after Trinity So, as we begin to plan our holidays for horse or to see the northern lights or swim the summer let’s enjoy opportunity, if it in a coral reef or climb Mount Kilimanjaro. presents itself, to enjoy a new aspect of SUNDAY FOR YOUNGER PEOPLE: The trouble is, these good things can God’s creation and let’s thank God for the “Little Doves” Crèche for children 0-5 years available from 10:45 am. easily become idolatrous things. “I’d like” experience. But let’s not pursue these Junior Church welcomes all children aged 5-11, and meets each week, except on the becomes “I need” or “I deserve”. And things as if they’re the things that matter fourth Sunday of each month. Junior Church takes place during the 11:00 am Service at somehow, if we’re not indulging in fresh most. Felsted. For details contact Paula Hatcher 01376 551562. things at least every now and then, we Rock Solid is a group for young people aged 11-14, meeting weekly from 10:30 am at the With Best Wishes, start to feel we’re being deprived in some Vicarage. Contact Sylvia Taylor for further details 01371 820242. way. YPC is a group for teenagers aged 14 - 18. Contact Ed and Helen Fenning for details [email protected] WEEKDAY WORSHIP Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters Colossians 3 v 23 Wednesdays at 9:30 am. Holy Communion Service in Holy Cross Church, Felsted. Fridays at 9:15 am in the Priory Church, Little Dunmow. Prayers for the community. Home Groups. There are home groups meeting throughout the week. Details are available from Rev. Colin Taylor. Holy Communion at Home. Please contact Rev. Colin Taylor if you know anyone who would like to receive Holy Communion. 4 5 Felsted Parish Plan Group Ten percent of the church income is by Margaret Attwood given to a range of charities. Last Autumn the Felsted Parish Plan Each is featured here monthly Group surveyed every house in the village and on a board at the church. to ask their opinions on how the village This month it is the turn of :- should evolve in the future. The data has now been analysed and the actual Parish Plan document is being drafted. An Children exhibition to promote the draft Plan will be Millions of children worldwide grow up held in the Memorial Hall on Saturday 29th trapped in poverty, fear or despair. June 2013 from 10am to 3pm and we hope that many villagers will be able to Disasters come along. All Keyed Up believes that local church is a powerful Disasters destroy the little that people by Dicky Howett force for transformation in communities have, and make hard lives even harder. VILLAGE PHOTO COMPETITION living in every kind of poverty. Inspired by At a recent farewell party Elizabeth Read Tearfund’s response to disasters is We want as many people as possible to the example and teaching of Jesus, they (right) passed the keys to the new Chair of immediate and long-term take photo’s of any aspect of the village recognise that people have deeply the Felsted Memorial Hall Committee, and village life and enter them into this interconnected material and spiritual Water and sanitation Hazel Fox. Ms Read, who has been on competition. The winning photo will appear needs, and they seek to meet those needs For millions of people across the world, the Memorial Hall committee and Chair for on the front of the Felsted Parish Plan and by working through local church partners. safe water and sanitation are luxuries 15 years, welcomed local resident and JP, there will also be a small prize for the beyond their wildest dreams. Hazel Fox to the job. winner. Other photo entries may be used They work particularly in Africa, Asia and South America – and also across Eastern HIV and AIDS within the Plan. Hazel was keen to take up the challenge Europe and the UK. Churches are at the Current estimates suggest that nearly 33 and lost no time contacting Interface with THE DETAILS heart of their communities – full of million people are living with HIV, a virus the following appeal for help: Photo’s can be Landscape or Portrait dedicated, resourceful people who want to that devastates communities across the format. make a long-term difference. globe. "Hello everyone, my name is Hazel Fox They must be taken in the Parish of and I am the new Chair of the Memorial They are active in the following ways: Governance and Corruption Felsted.