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3. Welcome 4-5. St. Andrew’s - Letter from Peter Editor: Sue Kenneally 5. Prayers For The Parishes The Old Cottage, Brickhouse Road, CO6 2HJ 6. Whist Drive; W.I. T: 01787 220402 7. Church Services for December E: [email protected] 8. Church Services for January All copy should be sent to Sue. 9. Church Notices 10-11. Gardening Design: Jonathan White 11. 3.30 Express E: [email protected] 12. The Village Hall Advertising: Terry Hawthorn 15. Carols On The Green 16-17. Our Primary School 6 High Croft, CO6 2HE. T: 01787 223140 19. Festival of Christmas Trees E: [email protected] 21. F.A.C.E.S Christmas Fair All advertising should be sent to Terry. 23. Save our Scout Hut 24-25. Parish Council Notices 26. Walking Groups 29. Your Church Needs You Our monthly magazine (double issues 30-31. Goodbye Reverend Pete in July/Aug and Dec/Jan) is delivered free 33. C.E.D.S; Open House; School Hall of charge to all 400 households in Colne 36-37. Village History Engaine and Countess Cross. 39. Correspondence 42. Foodbank Winter Appeal 1/4 Page 62 x 88mm £10 / £55 pa 46-47. Remembrance Day 1/2 Page 128 x 88mm £17 / £80 pa 49. Youth Club Full Page 128 x 188mm £20 or £110 pa 51. Snr Citizens Lunch Cheques payable to Colne Engaine PCC. The Secrets of the Valley 53. Correspondence Readers, please remember to mention From The Four Colnes Magazine this magazine if you answer any of the 55. Festival Committee advertisements. 57. Poppy Book Club 59. Defibrillator Operators We welcome advertising in our magazine, 61. Earls Colne Library Opening Hours the income from which helps to cover 62. Useful Numbers production costs. This does not imply any Advertisers Index endorsement or approval of the products 63. On the Buses and services mentioned in 65. Village Diary for December the advertising. 67. Village Diary for January FOR THE FEBRUARY 2019 ISSUE PLEASE PROVIDE TH SUBMISSIONS BY 4 JANUARY 2019 Please provide Editorial in Word and Advertising as .jpg file 2 / www.colne-engaine.org.uk ‘Tis the season to be jolly – and celebratory, and full of fun, and soon full of food (though I have started that couch to 5k programme in an effort to stave off some of the Christmas weight gain – I will let you know how I and my lovely friends do on our aim to get fit!) So the celebrations started in Parish Magazine HQ this November, when we received notice that out of 400 parish magazines entered into the 2018 National Parish Magazine Awards (A5 Category), we were awarded 25th place. I was really taken aback, as I had entered back in July and I had only just taken over in the December (another reason we are celebrating – a whole year worth of editing under my belt woohoo!), so the magazine was still a little rough around the edges. Not that I am competitive or anything, but if any of you happen to holiday in any of these places, please nab a copy of their Parish Magazine, so we know what we need to do to win! 1st and Best Magazine Overall - Wriggle Valley Magazine (Dorset) (The BEST name!) 2nd and Best Content - Lodden Reach (Berkshire) 3rd and Best Design - The Magazine, Mylor (Cornwall) 4th and Best Print Quality - Roundabout Lightwater (Surrey) 5th and Best Editor - Causeway, Community Magazine for Thorp Arch & Walton (West Yorkshire) But it isn’t just down to me, without our ever patient designer Jonathan, our hawk eyed proof reader John, Terry the advertising fellow (and so much more!), the host of delivery personnel, our advertisers, all the amazing contributors; the event planners, the school, Scouts, numerous other clubs and organisations organising events and writing copy for the magazine, we wouldn’t have such a great little publication, so a great big thank you to you all contributors, volunteers and readers alike. This bumper issue is full of events for next year, so get your diary handy, from the School’s bingo, to wine tasting at the village hall, there is as always, something for everyone. We saved some space for a review of the Remembrance Service on November 11th, see page 46. The much anticipated Panto is back – this year a home grown play written by Stephen Hector and Darran Lingley on page 33. On Pg 61 you will see lots of exciting activities being held by the Library for our little ones, please if you can, support this commodity of ours, so many in Essex have been earmarked for closure, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk- england-essex-46208316 lets make sure that the Earls Colne Library doesn’t fall into this list. Sue No doubt in December and January we will find ourselves giving and receiving greetings of ‘Happy Christmas’ and ‘Happy new year’. Such greetings are common place to us within our culture and carry within them a desire for hope, health, good cheer, blessing, and prosperity. There are a number of greetings involved in the Christmas story we find in the gospels. One is the greeting the angel Gabriel gives to Mary when visiting to give her the news that she is to be the mother of the promised Messiah. Gabriel greets Mary with the words, ‘Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you.’ We may also know this greeting as ‘Hail’ as different Bible translations seek to capture the spirit and meaning of the word. The original Greek word translated ‘hail’ is ‘chario’ and basically it contains a sense of cheerfulness, happiness, gladness, and joy. This same word is used of the feelings the men from the east felt when they saw the star they had been following reappear over the place where Jesus could be found. They greeted the star with the same sense of cheerfulness, happiness, gladness and joy with which Gabriel appeared to Mary (Matt 2:10). We also find this word being abused and misused by Judas (Matt 26:49) when he greets Jesus in the garden when he betrays him to the authorities. In turn Roman soldiers use it as a term of mockery when they dress him up and beat him and spit on him before he is lead out to be crucified (Matt 27:29). You may feel that Christmas is not the time to be thinking about Jesus’ suffering or in keeping with the spirit of the season. In one way that may be the case as the Christmas story, the birth of the long awaited Messiah and Saviour of humankind and creation is definitely news that should be greeted with the kind of greeting Gabriel gives to Mary and the men from the east give to the star. However we do a disservice to the gospel writers if we miss out the shadow of the cross which in the Christmas narrative tempers the hope carried by the new born child in Bethlehem. Matthew wishes us to recognise the place of Jesus’ passion even in the midst of the celebration of his birth when he points to the reason for the birth of Jesus being to save people from their sins (Matt 1:21). He also directs us towards the danger that surrounded Jesus from the beginning as we are left in no doubt as to the intentions of Herod who falsely greeted the men from the east with words of good intent (Matt 2:8). And finally in case we missed these two allusions to danger and suffering, Luke picks up this theme when just a few days after his birth we are told that this tiny helpless baby will cause a great stir in the world, have to suffer and that his mother will know great pain on account of this (Luke 2:34-5). In our modern commercialism and our predominantly post Christian 4 / www.colne-engaine.org.uk culture we find it so much easier to gravitate towards the cuddly, cherub like, baby we have come to see on so many Christmas cards, nativity scenes, and pictures. That’s quite understandable and not something we should be ashamed of or don’t allow ourselves to be uplifted and encouraged by, Christmas is a time of great celebration. But neither should we shy away from the real reason that Jesus’ birth is the be greeted with such joy, which is because he has come to save us from the darkness that lurks within us and hovers around many just as it did him at his birth. It is when we truly allow ourselves to experience the Christmas story in all its light and shade that we will find our joy at celebrating the birth of Jesus deepens. That is because it is only as we recognise our need for a Saviour to deliver from darkness that threatens us within and without that we can fully celebrate and rejoice in the birth of the one who was born to do that. May your Christmas a new year be full of the joy of knowing how wonderful and glorious is the birth of Christ for the whole world. Rev Pete Would you or a friend like a visit from St Andrew’s Church, Earls Colne a member of our pastoral care team? Just give one of them a ring. Sunday 20th January 2019 Ann Norris: 222015 Fun, friendly, learning and growing Beryl Amy: 223486 together. Service starts 6.30pm. Terry Hawthorn: 223140 All Welcome! The Rev Hugh Mothersole: 222211 Prayers For The Parishes - Thursdays 9am—9.30am Swallow Field, Brook Street, December 6th January 3rd Earls Colne Colne Engaine Brook Street, Park Lane, December 13th January 10th Colne Engaine Earls Colne Swallow Field, Brook Street, December 20th January 17th Earls Colne Colne Engaine Park Lane, December 27th No prayer meeting January 24th Earls Colne Brook Street, January 31st Colne Engaine PEARTREE BED & BREAKFAST Whist Drives resume in the Village Hall on Friday 25th January 2019 Jill & Chris warmly (in the annexe) welcome you to their 17th Century 6.30pm for a prompt start at 7pm cottage in Light hearted game of whist with a coffee Colne Engaine.