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ONCE IT’S IN WRITTLE NEWS IT’S ALL ROUND THE VILLAGE DELIVERED TO 2,600 DOORS! 3 ALL SAINTS CHURCH From the Vicar As I write this in mid-December with the Christmas preparations PARISH OFFICE: Tuesday-Friday 10.00am-12.00 noon (422846) and carol services underway, I’m reminded that it’s not long until CHURCHWARDENS: Margaret Bruce (699782), the shortest day is here and then the days will start to lengthen out Dianne Collins (07812 162715). Email: [email protected], again. Hope springs eternal! website: www.allsaintswrittle.co.uk A lot of people ask me what I’m doing in gloomy old grey PRIEST IN CHARGE: Rev’d Tony Cant skies UK when I could’ve been lounging in the warmth and sun of SECRETARY: Andrew Brewster Email: [email protected] South-eastern Queensland, Australia. Well folks, heat and sun isn’t CHRISTIAN CENTRE BOOKINGS: everything - especially when that’s so much of what you get all the Email [email protected] time! Phone: 07949 060567 Contact person: Andrew Brewster We love the change in seasons that we get here in England SUNDAY : and the beauty that the changes bring. Of course it can be 8.00am Holy Communion (Prayer Book) uncomfortable when it’s wet and cold, but it’s certainly that when 1st 10.45am Celebrating Together it’s so very hot and dry too. And bushfires are no fun at all. 2nd 10.45am Parish Eucharist So we all enter a new decade this month, and for us, a new 6.00pm Christians Together chapter in our lives. What changes will it bring? What are you 3rd 9.30am All Age Worship 11.00am Matins looking forward to? And what do you notice when you look back 4th 10.45am Parish Eucharist with Healing Ministry over the last year? I mean, what do you notice in your own personal 5th 10.45am Parish Eucharist life? Try thinking about those things you don’t actually talk about to MIDWEEK SERVICE anybody. We all have those things - usually they’re the grey, cold, Holy Communion 10.00am, first Wednesday of the month gloomy things, or those that are too hot and painful to mention. Special Festivals etc. See Notice Boards And sometimes they may be the things that give us hope but we The Church is normally open from 10.00am to 3.00pm still don’t dare to talk about them in case we ‘jinx’ them or people EDWARD BEAR: A Mother and Toddler Group meets weekly on make fun of us. Mondays 2.00 - 3.30pm during term time. See Notice Boards for And because we keep those things locked up and insulate details or ring Parish Office (422846) ourselves (and everyone else) from them, we don’t allow change BAPTISM AND MARRIAGE to occur. But don’t forget that change is natural and normal - just Preliminary arrangements should be made through the Parish ask any farmer. It has to happen or nothing would happen. When I Office by calling in or telephoning (422846 Tuesday-Friday 10.00am learned to be a dairy farmer in New Zealand (having grown up in a -12 noon) small city), I quickly learned that you can’t fight nature and that it’s PASTORAL VISITS AND HOME COMMUNION folly to try to do so. The old farmers were so wise and experienced Requests for sick or hospital visits, or to receive Holy Communion and taught me that you’ve got to work with the changes and at home, may be made by contacting our Pastoral Assistant Hazel vagaries that come with the seasons. It’s so much more stressful Kempton (email: [email protected]) or by phoning the and painful to rage and fight against them - not to mention futile. Parish Office (422846). Hope springs eternal, and the hope of Spring is real as we look 4 forward to the longer days. The reminder of God’s love for all of us 8.00am Holy Communion was right there as we celebrated Christmas. It brings to mind the 10.00am Celebrating Together lengths that God will go to for us to realise how much we are loved 4th 10.00am Holy Communion by God. Always remember that even when you feel low, unloved 8th Second Sunday of Lent (2nd) or even unlovable, that God is closer to you than you can possibly 10.00am Family Eucharist imagine. Change is always possible, and is actually inevitable - the 6.00pm Christians Together seasons remind us of that. 15th Third Sunday of Lent (3rd) My prayer for you (and me) this year, is that you embrace any 8.00am Holy Communion changes that come your way with the realistic hope that helps you 9.30am All-Age Worship work with those changes and allow them to enrich your life and 11.00am Matins share it with others. And maybe that simply starts with a smile. 22nd Fourth Sunday of Lent (4th) Who knows what effect that smile might have on someone else’s Mothering Sunday life that day, including your own? 10.00am Family Eucharist With every blessing to you, and Happy New Year. 29th Fifth Sunday of Lent (5th) Rev Tony. 10.00am Parish Eucharist 5.00pm Joint Service at Cooks Mill Green ALL SAINTS CALENDAR FEBRUARY 2020 APRIL 1st 8.00am Common Prayer (Taizé style) 4th 8.00am Common Prayer (Taizé style) 2nd Presentation of Christ in the Temple 5th Palm Sunday (1st) - Candlemas (1st) 8.00am Holy Communion 10.00am Joint service at St. Michael and All Angels - Roxwell 10.00am Family Eucharist and distribution of Palms 5th 10.00am Holy Communion 9th Third Sunday before Lent (2nd) Please note that, with the exception of the third Sunday of the 10.00am Parish Eucharist month, the main morning services are now at 10.00am. There will 6.00pm Christians Together be an 8.00am communion on the first and third Sundays of the 16th Second Sunday before Lent (3rd) month only. 8.00am Holy Communion 9.30am All-Age Worship BAPTISMS 11.00am Matins 17th November 2019 Ivy-Rea Joan Newman 23rd First Sunday before Lent (4th) 17th November 2019 Owen Randall Smith 10.00am Parish Eucharist and Healing 26th Ash Wednesday 7.00pm Service at All Saints with imposition of Ashes 29th 8.00am Common Prayer (Taizé style) MARCH 1st First Sunday of Lent (1st) 5 Christmas Tree Festival, All Saints Church, 2019. Photograph by Christine Knight. CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL It was the most successful yet! With about 2,000 people visiting the church and Christian Centre, 47 trees decorated to a very high standard and the Craft Fair stall holders declaring it the best for them, we must have done something right. The weather outside was not frightful and the atmosphere inside was delightful (to quote, badly, a well-known Christmas number). The centre piece of the weekend was the church filled with trees, and this year the stand out design feature was the pyramid. We had them made of CDs, clear plastic, tissue paper and toilets rolls. The overall winner chosen by both our opener, Chris Hibbitt and by you, the public, was ‘Bookworms’ designed and entered by the Writtle Library Volunteers. The Junior Tree winner was ‘Starry, Starry Night’ by Writtle Junior School, and the Business Tree winner was ‘The Singing Christmas Tree’ from Farleigh Hospice.