December 2020 January 2021 COLNE ENGAINE PARISH MAGAZINE
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COLNE ENGAINE PARISH MAGAZINE December 2020 January 2021 3. Welcome Editor: Sue Kenneally 5. St. Andrew’s - Letter from Mark The Old Cottage, Brickhouse Road, CO6 2HJ 6. Date For Your diary; Wool Request T: 01787 220402 7 Church Services for December E: [email protected] 8. Prayers For The Parishes All copy should be sent to Sue. 9. Church Services for January 11. Online Church Services Design: Jonathan White 12. Christmas Dedicate A Star E: [email protected] 13-14. Earls Colne Heritage Museum Advertising: Terry Hawthorn 13. Whist Drive; Café Church 6 High Croft, CO6 2HE. T: 01787 223140 16. Consider Donating E: [email protected] 17-18. Correspondence - Neville Bird All advertising should be sent to Terry. 20-21. Parish Council 23-24. Our Primary School 25. From the Church Mouse 26. Our Primary School - Open Day Our monthly magazine (double issues 27. Correspondence - Sue Kenneally in July/Aug and Dec/Jan) is delivered free 29. A Christmas Poem by Philip Wills of charge to all 400 households in Colne 31. Urgent Appeal - Stay and Play Engaine and Countess Cross. 35. Courtauld Memorial Hall 1/4 Page 62 x 88mm £10 / £55 pa 37-38. Passivhaus Standard 1/2 Page 128 x 88mm £17 / £80 pa 39. Recipe Corner Full Page 128 x 188mm £20 or £110 pa 40-41. Correspondence - Neville Bird Cheques payable to Colne Engaine PCC. 42. Donation Request from Daisy-mae Readers, please remember to mention 43-46. Ride and Stride - Cate Gunn this magazine if you answer any of the 51. Neighbourhood Watch 53. The Pachamama Project advertisements. 54-57. Gardening We welcome advertising in our magazine, 56. Defibrillator Operators the income from which helps to cover 58. Useful Numbers; production costs. This does not imply any Advertisers Index endorsement or approval of the products 59. On the Buses and services mentioned in the advertising. 60. A Christmas Poem This magazine is produced for the villagers 61. Village Diary for December of Colne Engaine by St Andrew's Parish 63. Village Diary for January Church. FOR THE FEBRUARY 2021 ISSUE PLEASE PROVIDE TH SUBMISSIONS BY 4 JANUARY 2021 Please provide Editorial in Word and Advertising as .jpg file 2 / www.colne-engaine.org.uk Happy Christmas! Am I the first to wish you seasons greetings?? I do hope so, though I have seen some Christmas trees up around the village throughout November, so you never know. I am holding back a little while longer on decking out the house to reduce the amount of dropped needles on my carpets! This double issue is heaving at the seams, thank you everyone for your contributions, I love a bumper issue, especially whilst we are all more housebound than usual, so a bit of reading matter is always handy. We have an interesting article from an adventurous couple, who are building a new home within the village. Passivhaus on page 37, will challenge our thoughts on being carbon neutral in our homes. Jane Lambert’s granddaughter Ella, has started an amazing charity called Pachamama which aims to reduce period poverty amongst refugee women – see page 53 for more information. Our regular contributor Cate Gunn provides us with another read-worthy article, this time on her ramblings around the North Pennines. This is best viewed in colour, so if you are able, I recommend looking at the magazine on-line: www.colne-engaine.org.uk, then click on the Magazine link along the top. After a month off, our resident gardener is back with gardening tips and his character sharp wit, check out page 54 for details of what we should be doing in our gardens this season. We have parts 3 and 4 of our Ugandan story, along with some lovely images (and there is more to come) which starts on page 17. From the church we have the sponsor a star incentive again this year – see page 12 for the form to fill in. We also have a reminder on the Advent Course see page 6 for more information. Finally, I want to draw your attention to one of our schoolgirls Daisy -Mae, and how she has taken the Reverse Advent Calendar to the next level on page 27. Enjoy the magazine & enjoy the festive period as much as you can, lets hope we will be able to spend it out of lockdown, so we can see friends and family, even if it is with a few social distancing modifications! Until the New Year, Sue PS does anyone use the recipes? Let me know so I can carry on sourcing lovely dishes – feel free to send in your own favourites too. Worship Through Your Phone Available 24 hours a day BCP Holy Communion with Revd Rose: 01376 317669 (less than 1p per minute). Also 4 / www.colne-engaine.org.uk Dear Readers, Those of you who know me well know that Christmas is my favourite time of year. I think it is wonderful that this year many have put their Christmas lights and decs up much earlier than they would usually do, wanting to bring light and joy to their family and their street. Right there - is the reason I love Christmas because that is what Christmas is all about. In some of our Christmas Services (details further on in the magazine) we will hear these words from the beginning of John’s Gospel, “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it” So much about this year has been incredibly hard and dark for many of us and it may be easy to empathise with the Coldplay song ‘Christmas Lights’, where it says ‘it doesn’t really feel like Christmas at all’. I’d rather in our villages that we put our lights up so that we can sing ‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.’ In many ways that spirit of Christmas that we see in those Christmas movies which may be very cheesy and predictable, and yet we love to snuggle up and watch, has been here all year round. As we helped our neighbour with their groceries or prescriptions, as we have supported our pubs and restaurants, as we’ve applauded our NHS and all key workers, we’ve embodied the incarnation - how God became flesh. The same Gospel writer writes that ‘God is love’ and the truth is that wherever there is love we find God. Light a candle this evening and turn off the other lights in the room and see again the glow from that one light. In the same way the love of God, embodied in us all, will always shine in our hearts no matter how dark it may be. That light shines in your heart because you are loved and precious in God’s eyes, because we are all Children of the Light. So even though it is still the season of Advent when we prepare for Christmas, if you haven’t already, let me encourage you to put your lights up and decorate your homes. Let’s make our preparations for Christmas by reminding ourselves of the joy that God, who created the universe, came to us in Jesus to share our human experience , to shine a light in our lives and to bring us to eternal life A happy Advent and a joyful, peaceful, and light-filled Christmas to each of you. Advent Course – Why we do what we do in Holy Communion Have you often wondered why we do and say the things we do in services of Holy Communion. This short, informal Advent Course will look explore this. Tuesdays 15th and 22nd December, 7.30pm at St Andrew’s Church in Earls Colne * (may be transferred to Zoom if required by Government regulations) Date for the Diary Epiphany Carol Service at St Andrew’s Church, Earls Colne on Wednesday 6th January at 7.30pm. Dear Readers, I have an old friend who is an intrepid knitter and would like any odd balls of left over wool that you may have. She knits dog and cat blankets and also cosy hats for the seafarers mission and care homes, so all her efforts go to a good cause! Please phone me Jackie Shine 01787223378 if you can help. Thank you, Jackie 6 / www.colne-engaine.org.uk Date Time Church Service Wed 2nd 7.30pm EC Holy Communion 10am CE Morning Worship 10.30am WC Holy Communion Sun 6th Advent Carol Service with Holy Communion 7.30pm EC (reservation required, also live streamed onto our Facebook Page & later uploaded onto our YouTube Wed 9th 7.30pm EC Compline 10am CE Morning Worship Sun 13th Carol Service with Holy Communion 7.30pm EC (reservation required, also live streamed onto our Facebook Page and later uploaded onto our YouTube Wed 16th 7.30pm EC Holy Communion 10am EC Holy Communion 10am CE Book of Common Prayer Mattins 10.30am WC Morning Worship Sun 20th Christingle 5pm Online (School children will receive a pack with all they need to build a Christingle and an invitation to the service) Zoom Midnight Communion Christmas 11.15pm EC (reservation required, also live streamed onto our Eve Facebook Page and uploaded onto our YouTube Christmas 10am CE Holy Communion (reservation required) Day 10am WC Holy Communion Sun 27th 10am Online Team Holy Communion Wed 30th 8pm EC Compline We are hoping that our December and Christmas Services will be back in our churches, but we are expecting some restrictions to apply. Therefore our services are fewer to allow for appropriate cleaning of our churches and numbers will be limited to ensure social distancing.