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where Church and Community meet

June 2010

Community News Local

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The Parish Magazine for Felsted, Flitch Green and Little Dunmow

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Licensed Ministers:

Vicar

Reverend Colin Taylor

Curate

Reverend Mark Windsor

Readers

Sonia Merritt 01371 823046 Colin Priestman 01371 820197

Lay Evangelist Edward Conder

01371 820242 01371 821996

Liz Paxton 01371 821501 Robert Stone 01371 821477

01371 820927

Parochial Church Council Officers:

FELSTED

LITTLE DUNMOW

Churchwardens

John King

01371 821411

Joyce Stone

01371 820564

Gwenyth Kirk

01371 820802

Vacancy

Secretary

Jill Smylie

01371 821247

Sonia Merritt

01371 823046

Treasurer

Ian Butler

01371 821175

Ian Shaw

01371 820372

Other Useful Contact Details:

Organist

Cr?che

Andrew Beaton

01371 821243 Paula Hatcher

Choir

Junior Church

Bryony Rees

01371 821990 Paula Hatcher

Fabric Officer

Rock Solid

Felsted--Jamie Mackay 01371 820483 Sylvia Taylor

Lt Dunmow--Ted Bryant 01371 820995 Mettle

Bell Ringing Tower Captain

Rev Mark Windsor

David Learmonth

01371 820398

Verger

Gift Aid Secretary

Eddie Kelly

01371 820018 Ian Shaw

01371 821450 01371 821450 01371 820242 01371 821996

01371 820372

Magazine Team:

Editor

Robert Stone

Sub Editor

David Learmonth

Local Reports Marilyn Smith

Trade Directory Eddie Kelly

Distribution

David Woods

01371 821477 editor@.uk 01371 820398 01371 820474 01371 820018 01371 821665

Cover Photograph: Brick House Farm, Little Dunmow, from Flitch Way by Ed Itor.

IN THIS EDITION

Church Services This Month ...... 4 Sunday for Younger People ........ 4 Weekday Worship ....................... 4 From the desk of the Vicar .......... 5 Our Charity for the Month .......... 6 Our Changing Churches - part 4 ... 7 Felsted Friendship Club .............. 8 School Report .............................. 8 Felsted on Video ......................... 9 Felsted Women`s Institute ........... 9 Felsted Aid - Never Too Old ....... 10 Seeking History Recorder ........... 10 Felsted Postcards ......................... 11 Felsted Garden Club .................... 12 Events Pages ................... 13 ? 17 Felsted Amblers .......................... 18 The Mouths of Babes .................. 18 What happened to Bramble Green 19 Quick CrossWord ........................ 20 Parish Registers ........................... 20 Where have all the flowers gone .. 20 Felsted Youth Club ..................... 21 URC Book Sale ........................... 21 The Natural World in June .......... 22 Felsted in Stitches ....................... 22 District Councillors` Report ........ 23 Seasonal Recipe .......................... 23 Cleaning & Flower Rotas ............ 24 Next Month Preview ................... 24 Remembering with Honour ......... 24 CrossWord Answers ................... 24 And Finally ................................. 25 Local Services Directory ............. 26 Trade Directory ............... 27 ? 28

The Editor Introduces

Here comes the sun - I hope!

And here is your June edition of Interface with a flavour of summer. So much to do and so much to enjoy. Please tuck into our seasonal recipe (page 23). Jules Wallis our History Recorder is also getting ready for the holidays with a look at Postcards of Felsted in the past (page 11). You might also like to go for a walk this summer and see if you can find the lost hamlet of Bramble Green (page 19)

Robert Stone

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SERVICES IN JUNE

Felsted

Little Dunmow

Holy Cross Church

The Priory Church

11:00 am Holy Communion 6:00 pm Evening Prayer

9:00 am Morning Prayer (BCP) 11:00 am Morning Prayer

Sun 6th 9:00 am Holy Communion (BCP)

Trinity 1

Sun 13th

Trinity 2

10:30 am Holy Communion (CW)

9:00 am Holy Communion (BCP) Sun 20th

11:00 am Morning Prayer

Trinity 3 10:30 am Morning Prayer (BCP)

9:00 am Holy Communion (CW) 11:00 am All Age Service

Sun 27th

Trinity 4

4:00 pm Priory Prayers

SUNDAY FOR YOUNGER PEOPLE:

"Little Doves" Cr?che for children 0-5 years available from 10:45 am.

Junior Church welcomes all children aged 5-11, and meets each week, except on

the fourth Sunday of each month. Junior Church takes place during the 11:00 am Service at Felsted. For details contact Paula Hatcher 01371 821450.

Rock Solid is a group for young people aged 11-14, meets weekly from 10:30 am at

the Vicarage. Contact Sylvia Taylor for further details 01371 820242.

Mettle is a group for teenagers aged 14 - 18. Contact Mark Windsor for details 821996.

Weekday WORSHIP

Mondays at 9:00 am in the Priory Church, Little Dunmow. Prayers for the community. Wednesdays at 10:00 am in the Riche Chapel, Felsted. A service of Holy Communion (BCP) (normally). Saturdays at 9:00 am in the Holy Cross Church, Felsted, Prayers for the Parishes. Home Groups. There are home groups meeting throughout the week. Details are available from Rev. Mark Windsor. Holy Communion at Home. Please contact Rev Colin Taylor if you know anyone who would like to receive Holy Communion.

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From the desk of the Vicar

Dear Friends

During the recent election campaign each of the political parties spoke of how the others were not to be trusted with the economy, education, government in general and, frankly, anything else that matters.

In so many areas of life our trust in each other has been eroded, with the result that many of us have crossed the line from scepticism to deep cynicism. And that's bad news. Scepticism says: 'Get a report if you are buying a secondhand car`: cynicism means every secondhand car dealer is a dodgy cheat.

Cynical mistrust informs and feeds us from a culture driven by short-term values and, in many respects, a sensationalist press. This cynicism has eroded trust and undermined our confidence in public figures and even our neighbours.

But you can't go through life as a full-time cynic without going off balance.

that's why Paul's words make such sense:

'May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit' (Romans 15: 13).

The God of hope offers Himself as the best place in which to experiment with the risky business of trust.

Billions of people around the world trust Him. Even when we don't fully understand Him, we have learned that He can be trusted. Our trustworthy God is like a lighthouse: He helps us with our bearings as we navigate trusting relationships with other people.

And from that place of trust we work out the balance between scepticism and hope. We can stay the right way up when other people let us down. And we can still trust Him when life goes pear-shaped. With all the talk about faltering trust in public figures, people next door to you are eager to find neighbours who trust God like that.

With best wishes,

To trust is to be human. It's a gift of God. No trust means no hope. No hope means no life. Like breathing in and out, the need to trust is as basic as it gets. And

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Our Charity for June

Ten percent of the church income is given to a range of charities.

One is featured each month in Interface and on a board in the church. This month it is the turn of :-

You`re sitting in a normal Sunday service. Take a look out the window. It`s not an easy sight.

Your friends are struggling to survive. These are people you`ve grown up with.

You love them. So what do you do? You do everything you can.

As a Christian organisation, we are passionate about our vision to work with a worldwide network of local churches ? forming one global church ? to end poverty.

Professional in everything we do. We`ve signed up to a range of internationally recognised operating standards, which stipulate that aid is given regardless of race, religion, nationality or gender, and that it will never be used to further a particular political or religious standpoint. God`s love is for everyone.

We are a Christian Organisation We`re passionate about living out God`s kingdom-values of love, hope and transformation. It`s what inspires and drives us.

We challenge the local church to promote love and justice Acting with justice and loving mercy are central to the purpose of the Christian church. As a group of followers of Jesus, the church can be a powerful and transformational force, vital to freeing people from poverty regardless of race, religion, nationality or gender. Our role is to facilitate, inspire and challenge local churches to help transform lives materially and spiritually.

We work through the church to address the whole person When Jesus connected with people, he changed their lives completely spiritually, physically and emotionally. He knew that people were more than just their hunger, or more than just their despair. So our work focuses on the 'whole' person ? working through churches to tackle both material and spiritual poverty.

For us, the challenge of Tearfund is to ask if their values are reflected in our lives, whether or not we support them materially.

Edward Conder

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Our Changing Churches

part 4 by Trish Conder

On 25th October 1877 there was a grand reopening ceremony at Felsted conducted by the Bishop of Rochester with a large procession of clergy. I wonder how someone attending might have described the re-ordered interior?

old heraldic glass replaced. Other windows also have new stonework and glass, those in the clerestory having changed in shape from round to arched. Behind the altar table is a painted alabaster reredos with an embattled top. These embattlements also appear on the repairs to the Trinity altar tomb, now moved to the Sanctuary to serve as a credence table. More embattlements

are featured outside above the renewed South Aisle roof and the porch has new windows, roof and a portcullis door. The old holy -water stoup in the porch has been given a chamfered sill to replace its missing basin.

All the doors are new, though

the one to the Riche Chapel

retains its original arched

head dated 1607. The roof of

the church has been retiled.

The church is now heated by

Powell`s hot air system. The

What sight to meet our eyes! Chairs,

South Aisle, furnished with a new screen

about 600 (we still have many of them

incorporating parts of an older one, which

today) filled the Nave and side Aisles.

is now joined onto the Riche Chapel. This

Both galleries have gone. The large

new space is filled with extra seating. A

wooden pulpit is replaced with a stone one. small organ is sited in the Chapel. (The

The Chancel and Sanctuary are raised by organ we use today came from Dumow and

steps and floored in brightly coloured

was placed in its present location in 1973.)

Minton tiles. A heavy oak screen, topped The Riche Chapel has been extensively

by a Rood Cross, now divides the Chancel repaired, and a completely new South

from the Nave, where special stalls are

window added.

provided for the choir and clergy. The

ancient font bowl now rests on new stone When the triple-decker pulpit was removed

shafts and base, with a newly carved

some interesting monumental brasses and

wooden cover, and is repositioned near the stone slabs were discovered on the floor.

main door. Also new are the wooden eagle These were repositioned in the Chancel and

lectern and altar table. Some original

at the east-end extension of the South

tracery panelling, which may have come Aisle.

from the old pulpit or box-pews, has been

incorporated into both of these.

Next month we will look at the man

responsible for the changes and what

The East window has been reduced in size, became of phase two of the project, and the

with a decorated design above it and the missing phase 3.

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Felsted Friendship Club by Wynne Malpas

The Club AGM was attended by seventy members and Chairman Wendy Bartholomeusz thanked Alison Moore and her team of ladies for the delicious lunch that was provided. The business concluded with a review of the last year`s activities, and President Pamela Keene thanked Wendy Bartholomeusz for all her hard work in the day to day running of the Club. Then the members of the Committee were reelected en bloc. Norah Eaton sent thanks to all those who sponsored her feat of knitting a blanket to be donated to Felsted Aid for Deprived Children.

After lunch, Bob Skinner - of Panto fame - recalled his time serving in the King`s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - the Green Jackets. As a musician he worked with many who made music their careers. He closed with reciting his own monologue of the times and people he remembers of his Army days and the military musicians remembered by many - Stuart Atkins, John Barrie and Stan Kenton.

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School Report

Felsted Primary School

by Lawrence Garside, Headteacher

No competitive sport in primary schools? At Felsted Primary School this is not true. Miss Miles, one of our staff, who is also Sports Coordinator for the local area, helps other primary schools out with PE training and also organises local competitions.

Our year 6 girls are County football Champions, the mixed tag rugby team are district Champions, and our year 6 boys won the Colchester area 6 a side football and went on to compete at Leyton Orient stadium in the southern section of the competition on 23rd April. On the same day 16 pupils competed in the St. George`s cross country race at Stebbing, and a year 5 pupil, Alexander Scott Bell, won the boys` race.

A team of younger children took part in an orienteering competition at Saffron Walden, really enjoying the challenge. We sent a team of year 5 boys to a 7 a side football tournament at Dunmow St Mary`s School. Although many of the teams they competed against consisted of year 6 boys, they finished a creditable fourth. We also came fourth at a local swimming gala that took place at Dunmow Leisure Centre. In addition, we are currently running clubs in gymnastics, short tennis, cricket, line dancing, gardening, rounders and football to help teach healthy living.

Felsted On Video

Dicky Howett writes,

"I'm filming a local documentary entitled 'Felsted Village Voices'. I'm briefly interviewing at random, various residents (it could be YOU next!) of the village with memories past and present, plus a few local events. The idea is to create an 'historical' record of life in the village during 2010. A presentation DVD will be on sale at the end of the year with all proceeds going to the Playing Fields Appeal. However, although I'm donating my professional camera services, I need post-production expertise in order to dub and mix in captions etc from an edited one -hour length original master which will be on DVD. If somebody has the necessary equipment and skills and would be willing to offer these free of charge then I shall be pleased to hear from them".

Dicky Howett 01371 820155

Felsted W.I.

News for April 2010

Hazel Fox gave an insight into her life as a magistrate at the April meeting.

After being given Public Service leave from her employer she attends court to deal with traffic offences, drugs related crime, common assault, benefit fraud or even people who damage the environment by fly tipping rubbish like hard core over the countryside. She is Chair of Youth Crime and we discovered that the Prince`s Trust can make a difference by organising meaningful work and training to persistent youth offenders whose lives may have been chaotic from birth. At the end of the day decision making or maintaining that justice has been done is taken very seriously. Three people have to agree on making a decision on sentencing and, if disagreements occur they have to go back to the Structure of the Pronouncement book and guidelines which are devised by lawyers. When a majority decision is made in order to protect the public and as a deterrent to others the defendant might be ordered to go on a rehabilitation course or a youth offending scheme. Serious matters have to be considered like asking the question if the defendant had planned to commit an offence when carrying a bladed article.

Dicky Howett meets John Baker

On Wednesday 12th May at 7.45 p.m. in the Memorial Hall our speaker, Mr John Abel, gave a talk on Treasure Hunting ? reaching back in time 30 years`.

Visitors are welcome to attend our meetings.

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