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Revd Paul Mackay St Mary’s Magazine August/September 2018 PRITTLEWELL PARISH CHURCH East Street Prittlewell SS2 6LQ 01702 466471 [email protected] www.stmarysprittlewell.co.uk Priest in Charge Revd Paul Mackay 01702 343470 email [email protected] Not available on Fridays Assistant Curate Revd Jacky Lindoe 01702 308373 email [email protected] Children’s and Family Worker Lois Blakey email cfwst ma [email protected] Churchwardens Carolyn Evans email [email protected] Keith Turner email [email protected] Archivist Philip Briant Parish Administrator Christina Turner 01702 466471 Wednesday or Thursday between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm Parish Safeguarding Representative Carolyn Evans email [email protected] Steward Penny Stone The church is open Monday – Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Treasurer Matthew Pinnock email [email protected] P.C.C. Secretary Sue Mackay Ringing Master David Sloman 01702 545568 Magazine Richard Anderson email [email protected] Pastoral Care Committee Margaret Harvey email [email protected] Flower group Coordinator Patricia Johnson email [email protected] Enquiries about Marriages & Baptisms If you have an enquiry about a Baptism or Wedding please come to the church on the first and third Tuesday evenings of the month between 7:00 and 8:00 pm (see website for dates) to meet with one of the clergy who will be pleased to discuss your plans with you and make arrangements. Or contact Christina our Parish Administrator any Wednesday or Thursday between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm. Revd Paul and Revd Jacky look forward to meeting you. If you have an enquiry regarding a funeral or are concerned about a loved one please always telephone the vicarage in the first instance 01702 343470. St Mary’s Magazine page 2 Where do you see God’s signposts for you? As we move into the summer holiday season there will be many families with school age children who are apprehensive about the new class or new school they will be going into next term. This is only natural; we all, young or old, get anxious in times of transition and it is easy in our concern to become blind to God’s pointers to us. These signs can come in many forms—a spoken word, a view from the window, a piece of music; it could be anything. In the Old Testament God’s miraculous guidance of Israel from Egyptian bondage was evident through the sign of a pillar of a cloud. The first account of this pillar of cloud and fire in the Bible, is found in Exodus 13:20-22 They set out from Succoth, and camped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness. The Lord went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day, to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light, so that they might travel by day and by night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people. I’m sure that there are times in everyone’s life when it is easy to feel a kind of kinship with the people of Israel as they wandered through the St Mary’s Magazine page 3 desert not really knowing where they were going. In times of transition we can often feel like we are wandering through a barren and hostile desert. However, unlike Israel we do not have the benefit of being guided by a pillar of cloud and fire but I was struck the other week by how often large buildings have served as a signpost, a guide to my moving forward. And I am not just referring to the few occasions I have been lost in London and used the distinctively shaped skyscrapers such as the Post Office Tower and “Gherkin” to find my way back to more familiar streets. No, it seems to me that there have been a few significant buildings in my life and often I have been given a “sneak preview” or a reassuring glimpse of where I am going. Like the great Gothic–style monastic building I frequently saw from the M25 on my travels to Durham to see my husband’s family. I was unable to discover what the building was, college or church? Then years later during my training as a Lay Reader I found myself worshipping there on study weekends—it felt like I had come home! And more recently the first sight of our own St Mary’s Tower from the back garden of what is now my new home confirmed for me this is where I should be. I have of course not always been aware at the time just what the significance of a particular building was to have in my life but as I mature into my faith I try to be more open to what God is offering me. Last night was Film Night at St Mary’s, and the film showing was “Bruce Almighty”. This is an amusing—I found myself laughing out loud a number of times—if at times irreverent film. However, within the humour, it does make some quite deep and serious points about our relationship with God. At a low point in his life Bruce asks God for a sign and there of course are several given, all of which Bruce fails to notice, rather on the lines of the old joke about the man who refused help during a flood: St Mary’s Magazine page 4 There was a huge flood in a village. One man said to everyone as they evacuated, “I’ll stay! God will save me!” The flood got higher and a boat came, and the man in it said “Come on mate, get in!” “No” replied the man. “God will save me!” The flood got very high now and the man had to stand on the roof of his house. A helicopter soon came and the man offered him help. “No, God will save me!” he said. Eventually the man drowned. He got to the gates of heaven and he said to God, “Why didn’t you save me?” God replied, “For goodness sake! I sent a boat and a helicopter. What more do you want!” I think my favourite scene in the film though was towards the end when Bruce is walking along in torrential rain, falls to his knees in hopeless resignation and is struck down by a large truck. As Bruce comes face to face with God in Heaven he asks “Am I……?” God replies: “You can’t kneel down in the middle of the highway and live to talk about it, son.” I thought what an apt metaphor for life; so often we are so wrapped up in ourselves and our situations we don’t allow God in and at times the consequences are catastrophic. I urge you don’t be a Bruce, take notice of your surroundings and ask God “where should I go, what would you have me do” and most importantly be open to an answer. God bless and keep you Revd Jacky St Mary’s Magazine page 5 Holiday Club We are excited to announce we will be running a Bible based Holiday Club this summer, for 5 to 11 year olds, from Monday 20 to Friday 24 August. The club will open each morning at 9:30 am and will finish at lunch time, 12:30 pm. Each session will be £2 or £8 for the five days. Every day will explore part of the story of David and his journey from being a shepherd boy to the King of Israel. The mornings will also include games, songs, competitions and activities. If you would like more information or to register your child/children please email Lois, our Children and Families Worker [email protected]. We do have a limited number of spaces so book early to ensure a place. St Mary’s Magazine page 6 St Mary’s Magazine page 7 Women’s Fellowship June 2018. This month our speaker, Pat Gilbey, came to give us a photographic tour of Essex gardens. At first we thought she was not coming as she was late or so we thought, so our committee decided to serve our tea, coffee and cakes first. However, we were at fault as we had forgotten to inform Pat we now start an hour earlier. Anyway, without getting flustered Pat set up everything she had brought with her and her husband organised the PowerPoint presentation. The flowers and shrubs that Pat showed she had photographed in the well-known gardens of Essex including some that I had never heard of and some other members hadn’t either. To name two or three, Rectory Gardens, Boreham, Green Island Gardens, Marks Hall, and Beeleigh Abbey, Maldon. The one that got the most reaction from our members was Hyde Hall. I think the majority of us had been there. In fact the Fellowship Group had been there on an outing several years ago. Unfortunately I did not ask Pat for any photos for our church magazine but I do have photos of shrubs in my garden this year. I am sending these to Richard to put in the magazine as after all, it is an “Essex garden.” Joyce Canfield The plants from top to bottom are Cotinus coggygria, Rhododendron and Pyracantha coccinea. St Mary’s Magazine page 8 St Mary’s Women’s Fellowship will meet on Monday 6 August, at 1:30 pm in the Guild Hall for Afternoon Tea—organised by Mary Porter.
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