Page | 1 www.tlcchurch.co.uk Priors Green, Canfield,Little Molehill Green Takeley, tlcchurches Park Takeley Street, Green, Bambers Takeley GRAPEVINE The Monthly Magazine for Church and Community Parish of Takeley Canfield Little with Takeley of Parish Courtesy National Trust Church of England | Diocese of Chelmsford of England | Church The Men’s Shed, Little Canfield June 2021 June 2021 Page | 2 Published by: PCC of Takeley with Little Canfield (TLC Church) Grapevine is also available as a pdf file on our website: www.tlcchurch.co.uk EDITOR: Barbara Mascetti 01279 871 606, 12 Chestnut Way, Takeley, CM22 6RW Please submit articles for inclusion to: [email protected] ADVERTISING: Please submit adverts for inclusion to Pat: [email protected] Adverts and articles should be sent as a Word document or JPEG or PNG file, not PDF. Published online 10 times a year. The parish includes: Takeley, Priors Green, Little Canfield, Molehill Green, Takeley Street, Bambers Green & Takeley Park. June 2021 Page | 3 GETTING IN TOUCH For enquiries about baptisms, weddings, funerals, visits, church groups & activities, please contact ourChurch Ad- ministrator, Lisa Chambers, at: [email protected] 07766 444873 The Reverend Dr Colin Fairweather can be contacted on: [email protected] 01279 816721 Hugh Mascetti (Lay Minister)can be contacted on: [email protected] 01279 871606 CHURCHWARDENS: For Holy Trinity, Takeley: Alan Parkinson 01279 879373 For All Saints, Little Canfield: Stretch Fulcher 01371 872168. June 2021 Page | 4 Church Services as we come out of lockdown Now that we are once again able to meet for worship, we are holding a said service at Holy Trinity Church at 9.30am each Sunday, alter- nating between Communion and a Service of the Word. Everyone is asked to wear a face covering and adhere to social distancing. For those unable to worship in person, we continue to join with Stansted Church for a Zoom service at 9.30am on Sunday mornings – you can find the direct link for that in our weekly email and on our website www.tlcchurch.co.uk. And we are also posting a video on our Facebook page tlcchurches at 11am each Sunday. These services are jointly led by the Reverent Colin Fairweather, Hel- en Flack, Curate at Stansted, and Hugh Mascetti, our Licensed Lay Minister,. Meanwhile, All Saints Church is open every day for private personal prayer. Using both our buildings in this way means we avoid having to engage in a vast amount of cleaning, for which we neither have the effort (volunteers) nor the money (paid cleaner). We have a weekly sheet of thoughts and prayers based on the main Sunday Bible reading – June 2021 Page | 5 if you’d like to be added to the mailing list, please let us know by email at [email protected] or by phone 07766 444873. There follows a list of the services in the coming weeks: Sunday 6 June, 9:30 AM. Family Service at All Saints, Little Canfield. Sunday 13th June, 9:30 AM, Holy Communion at Holy Trinity, Takeley Sunday 20th June, 9:30 AM, Morning Praise at Holy Trinity, Takeley Sunday 27th June, 6:00 PM Holy Communion at All Saints Little Canfield (Note that this service is at 6 PM, not the usual 9:30 AM) PLEASE NOTE that this information may well change as Government guidance dictates and as the Church Council responds - the latest information will always be on our website: www.tlcchurch.co.uk and our Facebook page: tlcchurches. June 2021 Page | 6 Dates for your diary: Canfield Coffee Pot is back in All Saints Church! Tuesdays 10—12 a.m. Contact Sue on 07773 910 080 for details, or email [email protected] House Group 7:30p.m. on Thursdays on Zoom. Men’s Group 7:30 p.m. Tues 8th June at the Shed. Countess of Warwick Show 29-30 August 2021 Takeley 10k 12th September 2021 June 2021 Page | 7 Some pictures from inside the Men’s Shed, Little Canfield The Shed is at Blatches Gate, Church Lane, Little Canfield, Dunmow CM6 1SR—on the lane that leads to All Saint’s Church. Members get together to socialise and make things. It’s free and no skills are neces- sary. Interested? Contact Geoff on 07768 284858 or Matt on 07540 222246. Or see Face- book group “Little Can- field Mens Shed” June 2021 Page | 8 From the Lay Minister I was not sure what to write for this Grapevine article, so I looked back at last year’s June article. Then I picked up a church magazine, saw something, and it all came together. As Barbara is finally tying the Grapevine together we are approaching Trinity Sun- day. It is one of the great festivals of the church year when we celebrate the HOLY Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit- but I don’t want to talk about that. What I do want to talk about is something different. Trinity Sunday is the last of a long series of important festivals in the church year, running through Ash Wednesday, the various festivals and special seasons of Ad- vent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost- or Whitsun as we also call it - and finally, Trinity Sunday. Each of them have their own special flavour and in church we use altar and pulpit hangings of specific colours for them. Then after Trinity Sunday which is white or gold) we go back to the standard hangings, of green, which have not been used since last Novem- ber. It’s an interesting colour to choose because it’s the colour of the world around us, and the colour of grass, trees and other plants. It’s the colour of growth. It reminds us that after the momentous events we have been remem- bering over the last few months it’s time to get back to normal matters and get on with things, to build the church as Jesus com- manded. The thing that struck me most was that as the church went "green", so did my garden After a dry, almost arid time when nothing seemed to grow, and I was thinking I might finally get control of the weeds, every- thing shot up almost overnight as shower after shower swept over us. Nature was getting back to growth as well. June 2021 Page | 9 At the very same time, the country seemed to be getting back to business. After the long difficult lockdown and some very tentative opening to business, the country seems finally to be getting back to something like normal. Today, for the first time in well over a year, I found myself in a sizeable traffic jam! While that is not something I would normally welcome, it brought it to me that perhaps finally we might be coming to the end of the terrible events which have dominated our lives for the past fifteen months or so. Perhaps it is time for us to "grow" our lives, our relation- ships, our businesses, our working skills, our experiences in which ways have been impossible during the constricting period we have just lived through. Let us hope that we as well as the natural world are heading into a season of growth. According to the book of Genesis, the first command God gave to mankind was to "be fruitful". I think that this shows that God wants us to be able to earn a living, have jobs farms, businesses and so on, and to make a success of them. And Jesus said in one of his parables that "your father knows you need these things." So I am going to be adding to my prayers in the coming month a prayer for growth; for per- sonal spiritual growth, for the church to grow and more people to come to know Jesus, but also for growth in the world of work and business. By Hugh Mascetti, Lay Minister June 2021 Page | 10 June 2021 Page | 11 June 2021 Page | 12 Churchwarden’s Blog June 2021 Hi to everyone, For this month’s churchwarden’s blog, I felt prompted to talk about something to- tally different. Something that is going to affect every one of us - whether you are a believer in Jesus Christ or not, this event will impact us all. I am a retired paramedic, having served 41 years in the Ambulance Service, and from the day I started up until the day I retired, I was attending accidents and emer- gencies in front-line ambulance work. I now have the privilege of a more genteel role, serving as Holy Trinity’s churchwarden in the little community of Takeley. I have always had a belief and a love for Jesus Christ, even though I didn’t go to church regularly. I love to read and study the Bible. Having said that, I do not consid- er myself a “devout religious person”, I am just an ordinary bloke who believes in Jesus. But there is one thing I would like to share with you. We have all heard about the birth of Jesus Christ at the first Christmas, and about the time Jesus went into the wil- derness for 40 days and 40 nights, and how he was tempted by Sa- tan and how after that he picked his twelve disciples. Some of us have heard the stories of him healing the sick and raising peo- ple from the dead, and about his his feeding the 5,000 with two fishes and five loaves. And at Easter time we have heard about Jesus’ riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, then his betrayal by Judas, his crucifixion on the cross, and then his death, how he was placed in the tomb, and how on the third day he rose, and then his ac- cension into heaven.