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  1. Pram Service
    • Start date: Wed, February 8th 2012
    • Start time: 10:00
    • End time: 12:00
    • Where: St Mary's Room

Tomorrow

  1. Holy Communion
    • Start date: Thu, February 9th 2012
    • Start time: 09:30
    • End time: 10:30
    • Where: St Mary's Great Dunmow, CM6 2AE, Essex, UK

Sat, February 11th 2012

  1. In Touch With Music
    • Start date: Sat, February 11th 2012
    • Start time: 19:30
    • End time: 22:00

    • On Saturday, 11 February at 7.30 p.m., Amanda Michell, a former chorister of St. Mary’s, Great Dunmow, will be returning to her home town to provide an evening of entertainment. The London based horn player will be joined by other young, talented, professional musicians and the choir of St. Mary’s. The programme will comprise a variety of music composed for the horn as well as a selection of solo vocal and choral music. The programme will feature works by famous composers including Mozart and Strauss alongside works by lesser-known but no less worthy composers.

      Amanda is currently pursuing a career as a professional horn player having recently completed her Master of Music Degree at Trinity College of Music, London. Amanda is enjoying working as a freelance musician, having spent the past year gaining experience as a period instrument performer with ensembles such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as well as continuing her development as a modern orchestral horn player. Amanda’s other work has included playing with her brass quintet Lord Nelson Brass, playing on a West End show and a couple of TV appearances.

      The proceeds from the concert will be used in the following two ways. A donation will be made to Music and the Deaf, a UK charity which helps the 1 in 7 of the population with a hearing loss to enjoy the world of music. The remainder of the profits will be donated to the St. Mary’s Church Roof Restoration Fund.

      The concert starts at 7:30pm Tickets cost £10 each (£6 for school children & students) and are available from The Vicarage (872504).

    • Where: St Mary's church, Great Dunmow, CM6 2AE

Sun, February 12th 2012

  1. Holy Communion - David Ainge
    • Start date: Sun, February 12th 2012
    • Start time: 09:00
    • End time: 10:00
    • Where: St Mary's church, Great Dunmow, CM6 2AE
  2. Parish Communion - Philip Tarris
    • Start date: Sun, February 12th 2012
    • Start time: 10:30
    • End time: 12:00

    • Please join us for coffee and tea after the service

    • Where: St Mary's church, Great Dunmow, CM6 2AE
  3. Hymn Service at Grove Court
    • Start date: Sun, February 12th 2012
    • Start time: 15:30
    • End time: 16:15
    • Where: Grove Court
  4. Evening Prayer - Philip Tarris
    • Start date: Sun, February 12th 2012
    • Start time: 18:00
    • End time: 19:00
    • Where: St Mary's church, Great Dunmow, CM6 2AE

Mon, February 13th 2012

  1. Week 7 of 2012
    • Start date: Mon, February 13th 2012

Tue, February 14th 2012

  1. St. Valentine's Day
    • Start date: Tue, February 14th 2012

Wed, February 15th 2012

  1. Pram Service
    • Start date: Wed, February 15th 2012
    • Start time: 10:00
    • End time: 12:00
    • Where: St Mary's Room

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Just A Thought: Leaving a trail

published by Elsie Bouffler on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 00:00

We have an attachment to our camera now which includes a little GPS system and means that wherever we take a photograph, it will automatically place the location on the map, so no more sitting with pictures years later thinking “where was that taken?”, or laboriously noting the location on each photograph for future reference. A side effect of this is that when we have travelled somewhere we can see a trail plotted of the locations we were in according to where we took photographs.

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So what’s your favourite?

published by David Ainge on Wed, 01/06/2011 - 00:00

I was brought up in a church where it was commonplace to record your favourite verse, or passage, from the Bible, and to tell one another about it.

I remember an older lady mentioning the great picture of peace, “The Lord’s my shepherd” (Psalm 23:1); and another referred to God’s great statement, “I have loved you with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3); and another person, who had had a really tough time in life, saying his favourite was “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” (Psalm 46:1).

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Just a Thought for Easter

published by Elsie Bouffler on Fri, 01/04/2011 - 00:00

Easter Sunday 24th April: For me the resurrection is a promise kept.

Every time I promise my kids I will be somewhere at a set time, I see the joy of a promise kept; every time the gas man arrives when he is meant to, I experience the satisfaction of a promise kept - but these are nothing compared to the promises that Jesus makes to us.

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Just a Thought for Easter

published by Elsie Bouffler on Fri, 01/04/2011 - 00:00

Easter Sunday 24th April: For me the resurrection is a promise kept.

Every time I promise my kids I will be somewhere at a set time, I see the joy of a promise kept; every time the gas man arrives when he is meant to, I experience the satisfaction of a promise kept - but these are nothing compared to the promises that Jesus makes to us.

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The Royal Wedding

published by David Ainge on Fri, 01/04/2011 - 00:00

Did your invitation arrive? No? – well, never mind, you’re in very good company – and besides which, you’ll get a much better view on the television.

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Just a Lent Thought

published by Elsie Bouffler on Tue, 01/03/2011 - 00:00

This month we enter into the season of Lent, and I believe that there are all sorts of mixed messages about what that means. Like Christmas the commercial side can get very confused with the spiritual. For example, every year I hear people say they are going to give up something for Lent, usually chocolate, but it seems to be more some sort of pre-summer diet regime ending in the choc fest that is, for many, Easter. I think the whole Easter message can for many of us be as confusing as it is for our children to get their heads around the messages of Santa and the nativity. 

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Do you know your neighbours?

published by David Ainge on Tue, 01/03/2011 - 00:00
We can expect a massive amount of publicity through this month preparing us for the National Census to be carried out on Sunday 27th. This statistical exercise produces an enormous amount of information about the people who live in the UK on that day.

In the last 10 years, since the last Census, there have been major changes in our communities. Numbers have risen; the age-profile has changed; issues of gender, racial origin and religious affiliation are now quite different; not to mention where people are now living!

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A busy 2011!

published by David Ainge on Fri, 31/12/2010 - 23:00
It’s not yet the end of November and I’m writing this piece for the start of January! It does seem rather surreal – but that’s the pressure of preparing copy for a monthly magazine.

So, 2011 has arrived. Another new year has begun.  Hopes for Christmas were either frustrated or fulfilled.  The holiday season is over, and we cast our eyes to the events of the coming year.

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Just a Thought . . . Christmas is not just for Christmas

published by Elsie Bouffler on Fri, 31/12/2010 - 23:00
I always feel that January can be a bit “after the ball is over” ish . . . the big event over, the sparkle settling and things getting back to normal which is what many people of course crave, but can seem a bit sad. “Joy to the world” is not an expression we associate with any time of the year except for Christmas, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Hope, joy and peace don’t have to be confined to one month of the year.

The bible story continues, Jesus leaves the stable, he grows up and he walks with us, teaching us how to change our lives, how to make things better.

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Just a Thought - November

published by Elsie Bouffler on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 00:00
Despite being told that God loved me, and seeing it on bumper stickers and wristbands, I found the concept hard to grasp until I had children, then I began to have at least the basis of understanding what that might mean.

Last year a few hours before we were due to fly home from the US my daughter fainted, quite out of the blue and for no reason and it worried us. As we made our way through the airport and onto the plane I kept watching in case there were any signs that she was about to do the same again, in that overprotective motherly way that drives all our kids nuts.

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