Colne Engaine Parish Magazine
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Editor: Sue Kenneally 3. Welcome The Old Cottage, Brickhouse Road, CO6 2HJ 5-6. St. Andrew’s - Rev’d. Mark Payne T: 01787 220402 7. Church Notices; Contacts E: [email protected] 9. Community Response All copy should be sent to Sue. 10-11. Our Primary School Design: Jonathan White 13-14. Parish Council E: [email protected] 15. Consider Donating 17. Harvest Lunch Advertising: Terry Hawthorn 19. Pilgrims and Strangers 6 High Croft, CO6 2HE. T: 01787 223140 22-24. Gardening E: [email protected] 27. Churches Open Again All advertising should be sent to Terry. 29. Quiz Night Fundraiser 30-31. Village Hall 33. Every Picture Tells A Story... Our monthly magazine (double issues 35. Earls Colne Heritage Museum in July/Aug and Dec/Jan) is delivered free 37. Correspondence of charge to all 400 households in Colne 39. Sunflowers and Snakes Engaine and Countess Cross. 41. Youth Club; Senior Citizens Lunch 1/4 Page 62 x 88mm £10 / £55 pa 42. Whist Drives 1/2 Page 128 x 88mm £17 / £80 pa 43. Recipe Corner Full Page 128 x 188mm £20 or £110 pa 45. Puzzles Cheques payable to Colne Engaine PCC. 47. Earls Colne Library Readers, please remember to mention 51. Braintree Area Foodbank this magazine if you answer any of the 53. The Four Colne Magazine 1920 advertisements. 54. Useful Numbers; We welcome advertising in our magazine, Advertisers Index the income from which helps to cover 55. On the Buses production costs. This does not imply any 56. Defibrillator Operators endorsement or approval of the products 57. Village Diary - July and services mentioned in the advertising. 58. Thank our from Children’s Ward This magazine is produced for the villagers 59. Village Diary - August of Colne Engaine by St Andrew's Parish Church. FOR THE SEPTEMBER 2020 ISSUE PLEASE PROVIDE TH SUBMISSIONS BY 24 JULY 2020 Please provide Editorial in Word and Advertising as .jpg file 2 / www.colne-engaine.org.uk Somehow we are now in the English Summertime. Not sure where Spring went, or where half of this year has gone to be fair. I thought being stuck at home, I would have had a massive spring clean, have emptied the wardrobes, thinned down the weeds in the garden and have a fresh sparkly home. Alas it was not meant to be. We have done some gardening, so some of the garden looks decent. The boys wardrobe content has increased as they have grown so much, but I haven’t sorted out the old clothes. I know many of you have taken the opportunity of being forced to stay at home to do all of the old chores that have been hanging over you for ages, and I salute you, you are amazing, and for those of you like me who have struggled, please don’t feel bad, as long as you and yours are still alive, still fed, still have a roof over your heads, you are winning too! So now we are allowed to go out, to have a bit more fun, and to meet up with people, it has been lovely seeing more people in the park, walking around the village. Life is slowly struggling back to normal, lots of us are on tenterhooks to see if we are able to go on holiday this summer, so we can get away from our own four walls. We have found some brilliant activities we can do whilst social distancing. Gosfield Lake is open for swimming, you have to book ahead, but it is so refreshing to blow the cobwebs away with a swim in the outdoors, there is also a company offering paddle boarding in Henny on the River Stour, which a few of my friends have done, and they have loved every minute. The toilets are back open at Frinton and Walton Beaches, so you can visit the seaside without having to go into the sea! The golf courses and fishing lakes are also open for business again. After all our events during the summer were cancelled, it is lovely to see such optimism in the magazine – the Harvest Lunch in October (pg. 17) the Whist Drive restarting in the Village Hall in September (pg. 42) and a quiz night organised for 3rd Oct (pg. 29). See also page 27 for an update on the Church open hours. Our wonderful Community Response Team have wound their services down now that the immediate crisis is over, see page 9 for a full article on their short tenure. We also have a lovely article from Cate Gunn (pg. 19), a recipe on page 43 from the school, for those of you missing school dinners and a few puzzles on page 45. Have a fabulous summer, wherever it may take you. Sue Editor 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 “By the rivers of Babylon Where he sat down And there he wept When he remembered Zion” Yes, I have to confess that I am a Boney M fan, have been ever since I listened to my mum’s album as a child. These lyrics of course are taken from Psalm 137, and as the opening line of this song from 1978 tells us, the people of God were far away from their home having been captured and taken away to strange Babylon (in modern day Iraq). They were no longer in the city of Zion, Jerusalem, but are remembering those times as they sit ‘by the rivers of Babylon.’ Some days I can relate to that just a little; our beautiful church buildings are closed, the land certainly does feel strange with phrases like ‘social distancing’ and ‘shielding’ becoming part of popular parlance. Just as the Babylonian’s scattered the Jewish people, COVID-19 has scattered our congregations, at least physically, to each of our homes. Oh, how I miss some of those things that I took for granted: hugs, dinner with friends, parties, going to the dentist even!, services in church, hearing the choir sing and the bells ring, the list goes on. As the Jewish people were taken away from all that was familiar to them, in many ways life in the pandemic feels a bit like that and I can find myself longing to return. Of course, the Jewish people did return from 536BCE and the Second Temple was completed in 515BCE – have a read of the wonderful books of Esther, Ezra and Nehemiah. Although I can see similarities between the situation we find ourselves in now and the Exile, the other Biblical event that has parallels is the Exodus; that journey from Egypt, through the wilderness for forty years, to a new land. This speaks more to me in our world today. As I pray and reflect on how Church is and should be as we journey forward, I’m convinced that to return ‘to Zion’, to return to how things were is both impossible and a mistake. I’m hopeful that we won’t be forty years in the wilderness but I think we are on a journey to a new way of being Church to a new post-pandemic world. There will certainly however be some time in the wilderness; we are in it now and as we think about how life in general, including our ways of being Church, will have to adapt, there may be similarities between us and the sojourning Israelites. Perhaps we will long to go back, perhaps we will get frustrated with the journey and its uncertainness, perhaps we will get grumpy with national and Church leaders, perhaps we will make for ourselves false idols and turn away from the one true God? What is clear though as we read the story of the Exodus in the books of Exodus, Numbers and the beginnings of Joshua is that God remained steadfast and continued to lead the people to a new land. The journey ahead of us, just as that which we have travelled so far in these strange times, won’t be easy. We don’t know the destination, but we do know that God is with us. My prayer for us as Church is that we will take the time to pray, to listen to God, one another and the communities in which we live and work, to discover where God is leading us as Disciples and as the Body of Christ, and to ensure that we care for one another and the world around us as we walk. 6 / www.colne-engaine.org.uk Online Services remain the same at the time of writing: Monday to Saturday at 9am - Morning Prayer Sunday at 10am - Sunday Service These are live on our Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/3Colnes.HalsteadAreaTeam/? tsid=0.8129781668982495&source=result and later uploaded onto YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC3tGvTuAyyWN-M-i7bncElg Rev. Mark Contact Us Rev. Mark Payne has been licensed to the Colnes in a service that took place at Earls Colne on the evening of 5th November 2019. For Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals: Please contact The Reverend Mark Payne on 01787 220347 or [email protected] 20 Swallowfield, Earls Colne, CO6 2SW. For all other matters: Please contact the Church Wardens of the Church in question: Colne Engaine Mr. Terry Hawthorn - 01787 223140 6 High Croft, CO6 2HE [email protected] Mr. Desmond Shine - 01787 223378 4 Brickhouse Road, CO6 2HL [email protected] Earls Colne Mr. Ray Wood - 01787 224140 Ms.