St Mary's Parish Church, Great Dunmow

Our mission statement:

To know Christ better, and to make Christ better known.

Welcome to St. Mary's

published by David Ainge on Tue, 18/04/2006 - 21:12

On behalf of St. Mary's Church, may I welcome you to our Internet site. We would be delighted to hear what you think of the site - please give us some feedback (what you like, what you don't, what you'd like added, etc.) using the Contact page.

Great Dunmow is an ancient North Essex town, renowned for its Flitch Trials, with a rapidly expanding population. I am David Ainge, Vicar of St. Mary's and also of St. Andrew's, Barnston, a neighbouring village.

If you have not visited St. Mary's before, and would like to know what to expect at our services, please read on ...

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Diamond Jubilee Service

published by Patrick Whittick on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 17:11

You are invited to join come and share in the special Service on Sunday 3rd June at 10.30am at St Mary’s Parish Church to celebrate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee.

The Service will include:

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Annual Church meeting

published by Patrick Whittick on Wed, 02/05/2012 - 16:20

The following members were elected to Office for 2012-13:

Churchwardens - Vera Davies & David Rose
PCC Members - Tony Beecroft, Maureen Best, Mike Best, Elsie Bouffler, Ellen Jackson, Elaine Peck, Michael Ryley & Helen Warren

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Christian Aid Week: 13th-19th May

published by Patrick Whittick on Wed, 02/05/2012 - 16:18

Volunteers are urgently needed to help with the house-to-house collection. If you can spare a couple of hours in Christian Aid Week to deliver and collect envelopes, please talk to Catherine (872580) or Gerald (875859) who will be very pleased to hear from you. Volunteers are also needed to help with the Cake Stall on the morning of Saturday 19th. Thank you.

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Just A Thought

published by Elsie Bouffler on Tue, 01/05/2012 - 00:00

I don’t have a good memory for names and I have found that after a certain time of knowing someone, one moves beyond the point where you can ask them their name yet again, so you have to coexist with them usually knowing yours and you avoiding having to use theirs - or is that just me?

There are all sorts of social rules we can find ourselves falling foul of, for instance that awful scenario when we join something new, then miss a week, then another week then so many that it just becomes too awkward to go back, so we let things go and don’t renew that membership.

Off with the head

published by David Ainge on Tue, 01/05/2012 - 00:00

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, is stepping down from his lofty Office in the Anglican Church after 10 years in post. In January 2013 he will return to the world of academia and become the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. We wish him well, and thank God for his untiring work of seeking to retain unity within the world-wide Anglican Communion.

Volunteering

published by Patrick Whittick on Sat, 21/04/2012 - 08:53

There are always things needing to be done in/around/for St Mary's, and we're hugely grateful to all those people who give up their time to help out. We're always needing more help, so if you are able to help in any way, we would be grateful! Please have a look on our Volunteering page for further details.

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The outlook for Outlook is good!

published by Patrick Whittick on Thu, 19/08/2010 - 15:43

Just as Great Dunmow is expanding, so we are again increasing the number of copies of Outlook we distribute each month. From a 20-page backlet being posted to around 3,500 homes when we first started, we're now posting a 36-page booklet to almost 4,200 homes in Great Dunmow and Barnston - that's over 50,000 copies a year!

If you would like to advertise your company in the magazine, please have a look at the details shown in the Outlook magazine page, or get in touch with Patrick or Sally!

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Weddings are up

published by Patrick Whittick on Sat, 04/07/2009 - 09:18

The doom-mongers are proved wrong yet again! Having wrongly predicted the demise of marriage as a helpful institution, they have tried to convince the public that the churches are closing down. Let it be clearly heard, church life is as busy as it has ever been.
Currently there is a boom in the number of couples wanting to be married in church. This year, at St Mary’s alone, there will be three times as many weddings as there were here three years ago. Why? Nice old church … nice old vicar… who knows? We are glad to rejoice with those who are rejoicing.

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First Sunday Evenings

published by Patrick Whittick on Wed, 11/03/2009 - 20:37

Every Sunday evening there is a Service at St Mary’s beginning at 6pm. These are a mixture of Communion and non-Communion Services. However, on the First Sunday evenings the Services are extra-special one-off Services to celebrate the Season of the Year, or a particular style of worship, or a noted anniversary. Sometimes we have the choir. At other times it is all congregational singing. Occasionally, there’s no music at all. But on every occasion the form of Service is interesting and innovative.

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