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  1. In Touch With Music
    • Start date: Sat, February 11th 2012
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • Start time: 15:30
    • End time: 16:15
    • Where: Grove Court
  4. Evening Prayer - Philip Tarris
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    • Start time: 18:00
    • End time: 19:00
    • Where: St Mary's church, Great Dunmow, CM6 2AE

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  1. Week 7 of 2012
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  1. St. Valentine's Day
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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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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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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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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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Just a Thought...

published by Elsie Bouffler on Wed, 01/09/2010 - 00:00
Over the summer months I have enjoyed sitting in my garden and dreaming about what it will look like next year. Right now I am starting from scratch with a rectangle of scorched grass and very little else but I have plans, boy do I have plans.
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Just a Thought - August

published by Elsie Bouffler on Sun, 01/08/2010 - 00:00
Consider the Lilies…

There was an article in a newspaper magazine recently about the difference between looking and seeing, and it went on to describe in beautiful detail what is happening when a wave breaks upon the shore. I must have sat on shores many, many times but never before had noticed such detail.

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Just a Thought - July

published by Elsie Bouffler on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 00:00
July has always seemed to me a month filled with hope, as school terms draw to a close and the summer holidays are imminent — the days are filled with all sorts of possibilities.
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Just a Thought - June 2010

published by Elsie Bouffler on Tue, 01/06/2010 - 00:00
Clearly the World Cup is not the time for humility.

Our teams need support and encouragement, and I am sure that when the manager gives his team talk it is all about building the team up to believe in themselves and their ability to make it to the final. We do the same for our children before a special match or an exam, to give them the confidence to do their best, and there is certainly a need for self belief, when there seem to be so many people who suffer from poor self esteem.

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