Alleluya Parish Magazine Dec & Jan 2018
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Albert Watson 01279 453224 High Street, Ongar email: [email protected] PARISH SECRETARY : 01279 Telephone: 01277 363707 Mrs Susan Allaway email: [email protected] SERVICING & REPAIRS ST GERMAIN’S – BOBBINGWORTH EXHAUSTS MOT TESTING OF PETROL & DIESEL Churchwarden: Mrs Sue Farnall 01277 890479 VEHICLES Mrs Stacey Pether 01277 890372 Bells: Mrs Janet Leverich 01277 890326 WE NOW TEST MOTORBIKES JAPANESE 4 WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLES SERVICED ST. MARY’S - MORETON AND REPAIRED Churchwarden: Mr Gareth Kaye 01277 364540 FREE COLLECTION AND DELIVERY Bells: Mr Roger Berry 01277 363950 AIR CON SERVICING AND RE-GAS Organ: Mrs Yvonne Holmes 01277 890137 PARISH MAGAZINE REPRESENTATIVES Moreton Mrs Christine Davis (Editor) 01277 890283 Email: [email protected] Bobbingworth Mr George Hart 01277 890248 Bobbingworth representative Gillard & Sons Ltd YOUR LOCAL PARISH COUNCILLORS: * Extensions * Loft Conversions * Alterations MORETON: Mr John Collins 01277 890865 * Refurbishments Mr Graeme Cooper 01277 890470 * Decorating * New Kitchens & Bathrooms BOBBINGWORTH: Dee Hannis [email protected] 284 High Road, North Weald, Essex, CM16 6EG Mr Andy Mangan 01277 890134 Mr Robert Schwier 01277 890433 T: 01992 523282 F: 01992 524292 E: [email protected] CLERK: Mrs Adriana Jones – [email protected] or 077 377 36365 W: www.gillardltd.co.uk DISTRICT COUNCILLOR: Mr Tony Boyce 01277 890298 POLICE: Ongar & Epping dial 101 then ask for the station you want 2 GLYNNS SWEEPS National Association of Chimney Sweeps Windy Ridge, Moreton Road, Bovinger CM5 0LU NACS Essex Regional Office HETAS [email protected] Member Chimney Sweep Service - Clean – 01277 890248 Efficient Vacuum – Brush Plus traditional Greetings from Windy Ridge, chimney sweeps for weddings The autumn colours are here, winter will not be far behind. Most of the hedging shrubs and fruit trees I planted earlier in Tel: 01279 424983 the year have survived the summer, I look forward to seeing www.glynnschimneysweeps.com the new buds in spring. Helen Martin, the Producer, has written the script for our next panto Cinderella, which will be performed by the Lavers Enter- tainers in Magdalen Laver Village Hall. Don't miss it! Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and a Healthy New Year. George Hart JOHN JAMES CLEARANCE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ May we take this opportunity to thank all the distributors of this Your local clearance company parish magazine, throughout Moreton and Bobbingworth, who Full/part house clearance - Garage clearance - Lofts - Shed / faithfully go round their ‘patch’ bi-monthly in all weathers deliv- Outbuilding. Rubbish clearance and tradesman waste - Green ering, and when due, collecting the subs. 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Www.johnjamesclearance.co.uk Alleluya by post it now costs £7.00 per year: stamps £3.36 + £3. sub + envelopes. 42 SERVICES IN THE UNITED BENEFICE OF BOBBING- WORTH, MORETON, WILLINGALE AND FYFIELD ST GERMAIN’S BOBBINGWORTH 3rd Dec 11.00am Family Service 17th Dec 4.00pm CAROL SERVICE 24th Dec 4.30pm Pilgrimage to Bethlehem 7th Jan 11.00am Family Service 21st Jan 11.00am Family Communion ST MARY’S MORETON 3rd Dec 9.30am Holy Communion 17th Dec 6.00pm CAROL SERVICE 24th Dec 9.30am Family Communion with Carols 7th Jan 9.30am Holy Communion 21st Jan 9.30am Family Service ST NICHOLAS’ FYFIELD 3rd Dec 11.00am Morning Prayer 10th Dec 6.00pm CAROL SERVICE 24th Dec 11.00pm MIDNIGHT COMMUNION 7th Jan 11.00am Morning Prayer 14th Jan 11.00am Holy Communion 28th Jan 11.00am Family Service ST CHRISTOPHER’S WILLINGALE 10th Dec 4.00pm CAROL SERVICE 25th Dec 10.00am FAMILY COMMUNION 14th Jan 9.30am Family Service 21st Jan 6.00pm Evening Prayer 28th Jan 9.30am Holy Communion The UNITED JOINT BENEFICE SERVICE ON THE 31st DECEMBER WITH BE AT ST MARY’S MATCHING - all welcome 4 My dear friends, Fidgety Fingers My husband’s favourite Christmas hat has ‘Bah Humbug’ em- Is offering small and individual classes; blazoned across it. He wears it every year at his office party because he loves to pretend that he doesn’t like Christmas! I in phonics, reading, writing and numeracy. dislike the hat and have often tried to “lose” it because its senti- Individual learning programmes ments are so negative, but somehow it always reappears. We From £10 per week for 3 to 7 year olds. got it out of the loft the other day and as I looked at it, I was re- minded of this ‘Christmas Parable’ written by Louis Cassels Learning is FUN at Fidgety Fingers. many years ago: Could your child be gifted and talented and need ooOoo Once upon a time there was a man who looked upon Christ- that extra challenge? Is English their additional mas as a lot of humbug. He wasn’t a Scrooge. He was a kind language? and decent person, generous to his family, upright in all his Does your child need extra support in developing dealings with everyone. But he didn’t believe all that stuff about Incarnation which churches proclaim at Christmas. And he was their confidence and concentration or with their too honest to pretend that he did. He told his wife, who was a communication and language or numeracy skills, Christian, “I simply cannot understand this claim that God be- comes man. It doesn’t make any sense to me.” We use he Early Years Foundation Stage On Christmas Eve his wife and children went to church for the Framework, and Key stage 1 midnight service. He declined to accompany them. “I’d feel like a hypocrite,” he explained. “I’d rather stay at home. But I’ll wait Montessori methods and traditional principles. up for you.” Classes are in Willow Place, Hastingwood, Shortly after his family drove away in the car, snow began to CM17 9JH fall. He went to the window and watched the flurries getting heavier and heavier. “If we must have Christmas,” he thought, Please Contact Jackie Neagle BA ECS: 07907 “it’s nice to have a white one.” He went back to his chair by the -462881 or email: [email protected] fireside and began to read his newspaper. A few minutes later he was startled by a thudding sound. It was quickly followed by Enhanced DBS and Paediatric First Aid Trained another, then another. He thought that someone must be throwing snowballs at his living room window. When he went to the front door to investi- gate, he found a flock of birds huddled miserably in the storm. They had been caught in the storm and in a desperate search for shelter had tried to fly through his window. “I can’t let these poor creatures lie there and freeze,” he thought. “But how can I 40 help them?” Then he saw his barn across the yard - where You could ring the bells to commemorate one hundred the children’s pony was stabled. It would provide a warm years since the ending of WW1 shelter. He put on his coat and wellies and tramped through the deepening snow to the barn. He opened the door wide It is planned that across the nation the bells in as many towers and turned on a light. But the birds didn’t come in. “Food will as possible will be rung to commemorate one hundred years lure them in,” he thought. He hurried back to the house for since the ending of World War 1. But people like you are need- bread crumbs, which he sprinkled on the snow to make a trail ed to ring those bells. The Willingale, Bobbingworth, Fyfield into the barn. To his dismay, the birds ignored the bread and Moreton ringers will strive to ensure that the bells in all four th crumbs and continued to flop around helplessly in the snow. towers, and more, are rung on the morning of 11 November He tried shooing them into the barn by walking around and 2018. By planning for that event now, there is time for people waving his arms. They scattered in every direction - except who have not rung before to learn. into the warm lighted barn. “They find me a strange and ter- If you wish to have a try and learn to ring to be a part of this na- rifying creature,” he said to himself, “and I can’t seem to think tional commemoration and enjoy a new recreation, then please of any way to let them know they can trust me. If only I could contact Ian, details below. We welcome new ringers and offer be a bird myself for a few minutes, perhaps I could lead them teaching, the step by step method and pace of learning is to to safety.” Just at that moment the church bells began to ring.