INTERFACE Where Church and Community Meet January 2011
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INTERFACE where Church and Community meet January 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 Church Services This Month ...... 4 Introduces Sunday for Younger People ....... 4 www.wizz4kids.com Weekday Worship ....................... 4 The end of 2010 meant From the desk of the Vicar .......... 5 two treats for me in quick Licensed Ministers: Our Charity for this Month ......... 6 succession. An evening Vicar Reverend Colin Taylor 01371 820242 [email protected] The Mouths of Babes .................. 6 out at the Essex Life Curate Reverend Mark Windsor 01371 821996 [email protected] Community Magazine Awards .... 7 Community Magazine Awards. See page 7 for details. Then my Readers Sonia Merritt 01371 823046 Liz Paxton 01371 821501 Operation Christmas Child .......... 7 wife and I were also kindly invited to the Jo Pratt 01371 821620 Colin Priestman 01371 820197 Felsted Aid for Deprived Children 8 Felsted Women‘s Institute ........... 9 Friendship Club‘s Christmas Meal where we Robert Stone 01371 821477 Christine‘s Flower Demonstration 9 were made incredibly welcome. See page 21 Lay Evangelist Edward Conder 01371 820927 School Report ............................. 10 for details. Parochial Church Council Officers: Message of Thanks ...................... 10 Who said being an editor is all hard work? Felsted Book Sales ...................... 11 FELSTED LITTLE DUNMOW Holy Cross Choir Needs YOU .... 11 With our politicians predicting austere times Churchwardens Felsted Garden Club .................... 12 ahead for us all I do hope 2011 can be a time John King 01371 821411 Joyce Stone 01371 820564 Events Pages ………………… 13-15 when we rediscover the joys of community Gwenyth Kirk 01371 820802 Vacancy Little Dunmow Discovery ........... 16 and all our readers enjoy many blessings. Secretary Wizz Kids in the Winter .............. 16 Jill Smylie 01371 821247 Sonia Merritt 01371 823046 The Grave Robber of Little Leighs 17 Robert Stone Treasurer Christmas Bazaar Success ........... 17 Editor Ian Butler 01371 821175 Ian Shaw 01371 820372 Felsted Primary School Log Books 18 Felsted Youth Club ..................... 19 Other Useful Contact Details: Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal 19 Organist Crèche CrossWord .................................. 20 Andrew Beaton 01371 821243 Paula Hatcher 01371 821450 Parish Registers ........................... 20 10 Choir Junior Church Felsted Friendship Club .............. 21 Bryony Rees 01371 821990 Paula Hatcher 01371 821450 The Natural World ...................... 22 Fabric Officer Rock Solid Friends of Holy Cross Quiz Night. 22 21 Felsted—Jamie Mackay 01371 820483 Sylvia Taylor 01371 820242 District Councillors‘ Report ........ 23 Lt Dunmow—Ted Bryant 01371 820995 Mettle M.P. Surgery Dates ..................... 23 Bell Ringing Tower Captain Rev Mark Windsor 01371 821996 Looking for Local Heroes ........... 24 David Learmonth 01371 820398 Cleaning & Flower Rotas ............ 24 WEB EDITION Verger Gift Aid Secretary Next Month Preview ................... 24 Eddie Kelly 01371 820018 Ian Shaw 01371 820372 CrossWord Answers ................... 24 And Finally ................................. 25 Magazine Team: Local Services Directory ............. 26 See last month‘s edition of Interface in Editor Robert Stone 01371 821477 [email protected] Trade Directory …………... 27 - 28 full colour at www.felstedchurch.org.uk Sub Editor David Learmonth 01371 820398 Local Reports Marilyn Smith 01371 820474 Trade Directory Editor 01371 821477 A copy of the Interface editorial DEADLINE FOR NEXT EDITION Distribution David Woods 01371 821665 policy can be obtained on request Noon on Sunday 9th January 2011 from the editor. Cover Photograph: Grange Farm, Little Dunmow by Jeff Thomas email: [email protected] 3 SERVICES IN JANUARY From the desk of the Vicar Felsted Little Dunmow for their moment of fame, often to the Dear Friends detriment of their personal integrity. In Holy Cross Church The Priory Church ‗Seven Days‘ the viewers are given the The chance to change the lives of these people. Sun 2nd 9:00 am Holy Communion BCP There is a good chance the participants 11:00 am Holy Communion 2nd after Ultimate 6:00 pm Evening Prayer Christmas will contort or exaggerate their lives to Reality become more interesting and watchable 9:00 am Morning Prayer BCP Sun 9th and so maintain the interest of the 11:00 am Morning Prayer The Baptism 10:30 am Morning Prayer BCP What do you think defined the noughties? of Christ audience. 9/11, i-pods, Facebook, The Iraq War or maybe reality TV-shows? Many would 11:00 am Joint Service Sun 16th Joint Service at Felsted Of course a little closer to home everyday say Big Brother was the epitome of the of Dedication 2nd after in our village, in the workplace, at Epiphany noughties – ―decade-defining‖. Now that universities, the supermarket or the sports- it has ended, Channel 4 has field our lives are being 9:00 am Holy Communion CW Sun 23rd filled it with a new kind of watched by the world around 11:00 am All Age Service 3rd after Epiphany 4:00 pm Priory Prayers ‗documentary series‘, ‗Seven us, speaking volumes Days‘. through the way we relate to 9:00 am Holy Communion BCP Sun 30th one-another. 11:00 am Morning Prayer 4th after 10:30 am Morning Prayer CW ‗Seven Days‘ has around 25 Epiphany volunteer participants, all In the first two chapters of based in Notting Hill, Peter‘s first epistle he writes SUNDAY FOR YOUNGER PEOPLE: followed day and night by that God‘s people are called cameras which document to be a chosen people, “Little Doves” Crèche for children 0-5 years available from 10:45 am. their ―interesting‖ lives. foreigners in a strange land, Junior Church welcomes all children aged 5-11, and meets each week, except on Those chosen by the sojourners, a holy nation set the fourth Sunday of each month. Junior Church takes place during the 11:00 am Service programmers are meant to apart – a calling to live at Felsted. For details contact Paula Hatcher 01371 821450. represent the diversity of distinctive lifestyles in the Notting Hill residents all society around us. Rock Solid is a group for young people aged 11-14, meets weekly from 10:30 am at vying for attention; not the Vicarage. Contact Sylvia Taylor for further details 01371 820242. through fear of being voted off every As Christians our lives should be week, but because there are only six distinctive, not through desperate attempts Mettle is a group for teenagers aged 14 - 18. Contact Mark Windsor for details 821996. cameras to follow the lives of all 25 to keep people‘s attention, but through a Christ-like lifestyle of radical and Mondays at 9:00 am in the Priory Church, Little Dunmow. people. One show will only allow time sacrificial love. The way that we live WEEKDAY Prayers for the community. for, at most, four or five stories each week, therefore encouraging the should consistently reflect something of WORSHIP Wednesdays at 10:00 am in the Riche Chapel, Felsted. participants to strive for the limelight. the transforming power of Christ in our A service of Holy Communion (BCP) (normally). lives - the ultimate reality of what it The viewers interact through a website Saturdays at 9:00 am in the Holy Cross Church, Felsted, where they can post their advice and means to be a Christian. Prayers for the Parishes. council for each participant, hopefully influencing the real-life decisions that are With Best Wishes Home Groups. There are home groups meeting throughout made. the week. Details are available from Rev. Mark Windsor. Holy Communion at Home. Please contact Rev Colin Taylor Reality TV‘s attraction is founded on our if you know anyone who would like to receive Holy voyeuristic fascination with watching Communion. other ordinary people selling themselves 4 5 Essex Life Community Operation Magazine Awards 2010 Christmas Vision by Robert Stone Our Charity for this month Child 2010 We long to see a Christ-centred, Bible- Ten percent of the church income is given based, mission-focused church where: I was honoured to be able to attend the Essex Life Community Magazine Awards The shoe-boxes that we packed with to a range of charities. One is featured Christmas gifts in Felsted last October Leaders are clear about their call to in November on behalf of Interface. For each month in Interface and on a board in were taken to a warehouse in Chelmsford. discipleship, are growing in Christ-like the third year running Interface was the church. This month it is the turn of :- There they joined with other boxes from character, and are competent to lead in selected as a Finalist, putting us in the top schools, churches, clubs and pubs from a a time of rapid change. sixteen community magazines in Essex. Church Pastoral Aid Society wide area of Essex. They were assembled Leaders discern God‘s direction, The finalists were wonderfully entertained into cartons and sent off in vast lorries. Mission enable action, build teams, facilitate by the staff of the Peldon Rose who The aim of CPAS is that churches should communication, nurture people, and provided complimentary drinks and This year 21,343 shoe boxes left the help every person hear and discover the themselves develop leaders. Chelmsford warehouse on three lorries good news of Jesus Christ. They've been canapés. We were also joined by a Leaders work as part of teams which woodwind trio who helped everyone relax bound for Belarus, Serbia, and doing that since 1836. reflect the diversity of ministries, and Montenegro. Each will go to a child, of before the tension of the presentations. Society is changing. The Church faces model themselves on the servant the appropriate age and sex, who may huge challenges. Yet Christ's commission character of Jesus. never have received a present of any kind Leaders help transform inherited before.