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Spring 2020 NAZE NG uk urch.co. eingch P w.naz ar zine ww ish Church Maga NazeingChurch Web: www.nazeingchurch.co.uk Email: [email protected] Tel: 01992 892937 Church Services for the Parish of Nazeing Your parish churches are: All Saints’ Church: Betts Lane, Nazeing, Essex EN9 2DB St Giles’ Church: Opposite Nazeing shops, Nazeing Road, Nazeing EN9 2HU See Worship in Nazeing Parish page for details of Services For more information see www.nazeingchurch.co.uk Parish team here to help... Priest-in-Charge Revd. Helen Gheorghiu Gould 01992 892937 07866 451744 Parish Office Wendy Weir 01992 892937 [email protected] Churchwardens Val Allen and Lea Brock 01992 892937 [email protected] | [email protected] Hon. Treasurer P.C.C. Martha Myerscough 01992 892937 [email protected] Hall & Venue Bookings Verity Borchard 01992 892937 [email protected] Parish Magazine Amanda Palumbo (Blackbird Design) 01992 442503 Design, Adverts & Editorial: [email protected] Distribution: Parish Office 01992 892937 Website www.nazeingchurch.co.uk Keep in touch with activities – Follow us on Facebook: Nazeing Church We keep advertisers and subscribers’ data to distribute the magazine and for this purpose only. Nazeing Parish Service Times Worship suspended for now. Please check the website: www.nazeingchurch.co.uk or Nazeing Church Facebook Page 8am All Saints Eucharist (Traditional Language) st Sunday 10am St Giles ‘Bacon Butty’ Sunday 1 Breakfast followed by informal cafe worship 10 am All Saints Parish Eucharist nd Sunday Worchip at 10am 2 followed by refreshments 8am All Saints Eucharist (Traditional Language) rd Sunday No 8am service between Christmas 2019 and Easter 2020 3 10am St Giles 3rd Sunday – Sunday Fun-Day Family service with Holy Communion Worship at 10am followed by refreshments 10am All Saints Parish Eucharist th Sunday Worship at 10am 4 followed by refreshments 10am All Saints Parish Eucharist th Sunday Worship at 10am 5 followed by refreshments Tuesdays 10.30am St Giles Morning Prayer t won’t have escaped and feel it is the next generation’s problem anyone’s notice that we are to solve. in environmental trouble. If But none of these are true. So let’s all think I differently: Storm Ciara and Dennis and the accompanying flooding are not • We are not powerless: we are our own convincing us, or the awful bush knights – we can make a difference by fires in Australia in recent months, being creative and acting locally! then perhaps last year’s Blue Planet • We can each act and do something, II series with David Attenborough and hundreds, thousands, millions of showing the impact of discarded people doing small things will make a big plastics made us think harder about difference. how we live. • We elect governments and we buy things, so it is our voting and consumer The protests by Extinction Rebellion and the power that will change things, and we children’s School Strikes prompted by the need to use it. Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, have stirred up the debate. All of us, young and older, need to act together: the older generation has Sometimes we are tempted to think that it is something to teach younger people about someone else’s responsibility –governments how to live sustainably as they did during and businesses need to sort it out. We feel rationing; the younger generation needs powerless to make a difference ourselves: to have courage, wisdom and resilience, we are waiting for an official knight in to live with less not more, as it will be that shining armour, or the discovery of some generation and their children who bear magic new technology! Sometimes we the brunt of the suffering. We all, together, switch off because the fear of apocalypse need to relearn the old wisdom that it is paralysing, that it reduces our ability is not wealth and material possessions to act and – because it feels hopeless which make us happy; in fact our way of – prevents us from looking for solutions. consuming – clothes, cars, food, holidays Sometimes we also think this is so far off, we abroad, energy, oil –is making us poorer need not worry about it, and this might be and unhappier. especially tempting if we are of ‘riper’ years As climate campaigners point out, there is The Church of England is making this no cliff-edge crisis coming: it is slow process discovery of a better way of living the focus which is happening now and we can of our Lent journey in 2020, with the launch see the signs around us. Already people of Live Lent. Instead of giving up alcohol in some parts of the world are suffering – or chocolate, which doesn’t really make including in the UK, where some people a difference to anyone except ourselves, have been flooded multiple times in recent it offers practical steps for how we can years. The time to act is now. We have a live differently. It is available as a booklet decade to change the way we live before or as an online resource here: www. the way we live now causes an irreversible churchofengland.org/livelent sequence of changes to our planet. Let’s It can always feel overwhelming to start start learning how to live differently now. on a new journey, especially one which The Christian faith has a lot to teach us feels so uncertain and insecure. At this time because it is based on hope: hope in of year we recall Jesus’s own journey into people and hope in the power of God. the wilderness for 40 days and we mark God is not a magician with a wand, but that journey spiritually in Lent by taking on God calls us to be his magic wands – to live a new challenge. Like many courageous and act in transformative ways that makes pilgrims in history we all have to just start a difference to others and to our planet. somewhere – the journey of a thousand We call that ‘magic’ the Holy Spirit – which miles begins with a single step. Take one is a force for change, good and creativity step today and the steps that follow will in the world. We have hope because Jesus be made easier. Over the page are some came into the world to show us how to live ideas and resources to help us take action. well and peacefully with one another, and But let’s do it, and let’s do it together as the through his inspiration to have ‘life in all its community of Nazeing. fullness’. Revd Helen Gheorghiu Gould Pray, learn, reflect Sign up to daily reflections for Lent at #LiveLent: Care for God’s Creation. Archbishops Justin and Sentamu say: ‘This Lent, we hope both adults and children might engage in God’s plea for us to “Care for Creation”. It is an opportunity for us to rebuild our relationship with our planet, and in turn with the God who is Lord of everything.’ As people made in the image of God, we are entrusted to look after what he Be inspired has created: to share in God’s joy and ingenuity in making a difference for good. We were planning some fantastic Lent Foundational to Saying Yes to Life is what it Films for lent, but like many things, Corona means to be human and, in particular, to virus has put paid to that. We would hope be a follower of Jesus. Voices from around to have a chance to reschedule these the world are heard throughout, and each sometime after Easter when we hope the chapter ends with discussion questions and risk is reduced. In the meantime, if you a prayer to aid action and contemplation. want to look at these films on subscription Available here: services here they are: https://spckpublishing.co.uk/saying-yes-to- An Inconvenient Sequel – former US Vice life President, Al Gore gets back to his best job as an environmental activist. Transitioning together Tomorrow (Demain) – Mélanie Laurent and Can we start a ‘Transition Group’ for Cyril Dion travel worldwide to investigate Nazeing which will help us start to think and how communities are responding to the plan for our own community in Nazeing challenge of change. to live differently? It could be made up of all ages and types of people. For more Say Yes to Life information on the exciting possibilities of a Transition Group. The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book https://transitionnetwork.org/ 2020 is Ruth Valerio’s Saying Yes to Life. Responding to Corona Virus The Corona Virus (Covid 19) Your chances of avoiding the virus are seems to have come out of increased if everyone else can use hand sanitiser too, so sharing is better nowhere and caused confusion than hoarding. and anxiety. But beyond the immediate worries about 3. SHARE: ourselves and our family there If you have extra items, consider who has also been genuine concern you could share them with. and a desire to help others. But 4. GIVE: what is the best way to do this? Some people who are self-employed or have no sickness cover in their contract Local community leaders in Nazeing will suffer financial hardship if they are meeting to try and establish safe, have to self-isolate. Consider giving to trusted and sustainable systems of charities like Foodbank that will support community support which can be them. called on in a crisis – if you or one of your family needs to self-isolate, but 5. DO NOT BE AFRAID: needs support. In the meantime, you Stay calm and help keep others calm.