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INTERFACE where Church and Community meet July & August 2011 INTERFACE SPECIAL WEB EDITION Full Colour The Parish Magazine for Felsted, Flitch Green and Little Dunmow 50p IN THIS EDITION The Editor Church Directory www.felstedchurch.org.uk From the desk of the Vicar .......... 4 Introduces Church Services in July & August 5 www.wizz4kids.com Sunday for Younger People ....... 5 If variety is the spice of Weekday Worship ....................... 6 life then this month‘s Licensed Ministers: Felsted Friendship Club .............. 6 Interface is hot, hot, hot! Vicar Reverend Colin Taylor 01371 820242 [email protected] CMS Delhi Night Shelter ............ 7 There is so much to be Curate Reverend Mark Windsor 01371 821996 [email protected] A History of Little Dunmow found in these pages that reflect the variety of Readers Sonia Merritt 01371 823046 Liz Paxton 01371 821501 Lenten Soup Kitchen Part 1 ........ 7 our community. There are events and Jo Pratt 01371 821620 Colin Priestman 01371 820197 Our Charity for July .................... 8 occasions to be celebrated and we send Robert Stone 01371 821477 Our Charity for August ............... 9 special wishes to Bernie Saunders whose Felsted Women‘s Institute ........... 9 Lay Evangelist Edward Conder 01371 820927 retirement from the Memorial Hall is marked Felsted Primary School Report ... 10 on page 22. Felsted Celebrates ....................... 11 Parochial Church Council Officers: Felsted Garden Club .................... 12 One piece of news we are still awaiting a FELSTED LITTLE DUNMOW Events Pages ………………… 13-18 report for is the promotion of Felsted FC who Churchwardens Felsted Youth Club ..................... 18 this year by came second in their league. Rev Basil Jefferies 01371 821124 Joyce Stone 01371 820564 Salvo the paradog ........................ 19 Mark Windsor our curate has played a solid Eddie Kelly 01371 820018 Vacancy CrossWord .................................. 20 season in defence for the team. So it‘s Secretary Felsted Amblers .......................... 20 congratulations to Mark and all his team- Jill Smylie 01371 821247 Sonia Merritt 01371 823046 Essex Churches: Mistley ............. 21 mates. Perhaps we can get a write up before Treasurer British Red Cross ........................ 21 the next season begins. Ian Butler 01371 821175 Ian Shaw 01371 820372 Taking the Cake .......................... 22 Robert Stone The Natural World ...................... 22 Editor Other Useful Contact Details: Towering News ........................... 23 11 Organist Crèche Cleaning & Flower Rotas ............ 24 Andrew Beaton 01371 821243 Paula Hatcher 01371 821450 Parish Registers ........................... 24 Choir Junior Church CrossWord Answers ................... 24 Bryony Rees 01371 821990 Paula Hatcher 01371 821450 And Finally ................................. 25 22 Fabric Officer Rock Solid Local Services Directory ............. 26 Felsted—Jamie Mackay 01371 820483 Sylvia Taylor 01371 820242 Trade Directory …………….... 27-28 Lt Dunmow—Ted Bryant 01371 820995 Mettle Bell Ringing Tower Captain Rev Mark Windsor 01371 821996 David Learmonth 01371 820398 Verger Gift Aid Secretary Eddie Kelly 01371 820018 Ian Shaw 01371 820372 Magazine Team: WEB EDITION Editor Robert Stone 01371 821477 [email protected] See last month‘s edition of Interface in Sub Editor David Learmonth 01371 820398 full colour at www.felstedchurch.org.uk Trade Directory Editor 01371 821477 Distribution David Woods 01371 821665 DEADLINE FOR NEXT EDITION A copy of the Interface editorial th policy can be obtained on request Noon on Sunday 7 August 2011 from the editor. email: [email protected] Cover Photograph: Felsted Church, by Ed Itor 3 From the desk of the Vicar SERVICES IN JULY & AUGUST Dear Friends In the 20th century Christianity has Felsted Little Dunmow receded in Europe and North America. Shifts in Power Meanwhile in Latin America, Asia and Holy Cross Church The Priory Church Africa it has been growing up to ten times Ever since a man in Tunisia Sun 3rd 9:00 am Holy Communion BCP burned himself to death in the population growth rate. In England 11:00 am Holy Communion 1.7 million people regularly attend 2nd Sunday December 2010 in protest 6:00 pm Evening Prayer after Trinity Anglican services, in the United States it‘s at his treatment by police, 9:00 am Morning Prayer BCP Sun 10th pro-democracy rebellions have erupted 2.5 million. Nigeria alone has 17 million 10:30 am Holy Communion CW Anglicans. In Uganda the figure is 8 11:00 am Morning Prayer 3rd Sunday across the Middle East. The so-called after Trinity Arab Spring has brought about change. million. In the next 50 years the centre of Christianity is predicted to continue this Whether the Arab order will collapse or 9:00 am Holy Communion BCP Sun 17th 10:30 am Morning Prayer BCP somehow re-invent itself is far from shift away from Europe and the United 11:00 am Morning Prayer 4th Sunday States. Why? What is causing this shift? after Trinity certain but certainly in places like Egypt power has shifted and all across the region Wall, interestingly, says that one of the 9:00 am Holy Communion CW Sun 24th a new perspective is emerging. major reasons is the vulnerability of the 11:00 am All Age Service 5th Sunday after Trinity 4:00 pm Priory Prayers But what about the shifts in power and cross. The heart of the Christian gospel is the cross and the cross is all about giving centers of gravity of religious life? Tim 9:00 am Holy Communion BCP Sun 31st 10:30 am Morning Prayer CW Keller, in his excellent book King‘s Cross, up power, pouring out resources and 11:00 am Morning Prayer 6th Sunday quotes historian Andrew Wall saying that, serving. When Christianity is in a place of after Trinity power and wealth for a long time, the apart from Christianity, wherever the Sun 7th 9:00 am Holy Communion BCP other great world religions began that is radical message of sin and grace and the 11:00 am Holy Communion 7th Sunday still their center today. Islam started in cross often becomes muted or even lost. 6:00 pm Evening Prayer after Trinity Christianity starts to transmute into a nice, Arabia, at Mecca, and the Middle East is 9:00 am Morning Prayer BCP Sun 14th still the center of Islam today. Buddhism safe religion, one that‘s for respectable 10:30 am Holy Communion CW people who try to be good. Eventually it 11:00 am Morning Prayer 8th Sunday started in the Far East, and that‘s still the after Trinity center today. So too with Hinduism: it becomes virtually dormant in those places and the center shifts somewhere else. In began in India and is still predominantly 9:00 am Holy Communion BCP Sun 21st 10:30 am Morning Prayer BCP an Indian religion. short Christianity is always migrating 11:00 am Wizz Kids Service 9th Sunday after Trinity away from power and wealth. at Memorial Hall Christianity is the exception. Christianity‘s centre is always moving and In a sense Jesus was himself the rich 9:00 am Holy Communion CW Sun 28th young ruler he confronted in Mark 10. 11:00 am Morning Prayer 10th Sunday shifting. The original centre was after Trinity Jerusalem, but then the Hellenistic Jesus did give up his ‗wealth‘ to serve us. 4:00 pm Priory Prayers Gentiles, who were considered the Is Jesus not saying in the gospels, my unwashed barbarians, embraced power is always moving away from SUNDAY FOR YOUNGER PEOPLE: people who love power and money? My Christianity and soon the center shifted to ―Little Doves‖ Crèche for children 0-5 years available from 10:45 am. the Mediterranean world. When other power is always moving towards people welcomes all children aged 5-11, and meets each week, except on peoples on the margins, the Franks, Anglo who are giving it away, as I did. Blessed Junior Church -Saxons and Celts embraced Christianity are the poor in spirit indeed. the fourth Sunday of each month. Junior Church takes place during the 11:00 am Service the center migrated again to northern at Felsted. For details contact Paula Hatcher 01371 821450. Europe, where it rested for some 1,000 With Best Wishes Rock Solid is a group for young people aged 11-14, meets weekly from 10:30 am at years. the Vicarage. Contact Sylvia Taylor for further details 01371 820242. Mettle is a group for teenagers aged 14 - 18. Contact Mark Windsor for details 821996. 4 5 WEEKDAY WORSHIP Church Mission Society Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, Delhi Night Shelter as working for the Lord, not for human masters by Trish Conder Colossians 3 v 23 A recent article in the Church Mission Newsletter caught my eye as it featured Mondays at 9:00 am in the Priory Church, Little Dunmow. Prayers for the community. the work of the Delhi Brotherhood Wednesdays at 10:00 am in the Riche Chapel, Felsted. Society. This is where Gautam and A service of Holy Communion (BCP normally). Sabrina Money our C.M.S. partners work. A History of the Saturdays at 9:00 am in the Holy Cross Church, Felsted, Prayers for the Parishes. The article was about a night shelter that Little Dunmow Lenten has recently been established in Delhi for Home Groups. There are home groups meeting throughout the week. boys between the ages of 10 and 15. Soup Kitchen Part 1 Details are available from Rev. Mark Windsor. There the boys are given food, medical by Kathleen Carhart Holy Communion at Home. Please contact Rev Colin Taylor if you know anyone who care and vital skills training. As well as would like to receive Holy Communion. these necessities of life their spiritual Rev. Alex Jack as vicar of Little Dunmow growth is not forgotten. and Barnston proposed that in cooperation with Black Chapel and Barnston Mission John Drury enjoys a welcome cuppa One example is Ravi, who joined the we would invite Rural Evangelism, shelter five years ago.