Community, Parish Council & Village
As we await news of when & how we might be coming out of lockdown, this update starts with an update on Gathered Services and then continues with:
… and the usual listings of services and contacts but first:
Ahead of Ascension Day, this update from St Mary’s starts with news about a return to ‘gathered services and then continues with:
… and the usual listings of services and contacts but first:
This Easter 2021 update from St Mary’s starts with a message from Revd Anne and also includes:
… and the usual listings of services and contacts but first:
You may be reading this article around Eastertime, or a little earlier. It’s at Easter that Christians the world over celebrate Jesus’ death and resurrection, and are reminded of God’s free gift of forgiveness and love. In the Bible we read,
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St Mary’s Church is running a fundraiser Zoom Quiz to support the work of their Families Worker, Jo Jeffery. Jo’s work impacts many in the village and includes activities such as:
You don’t have to have a full house to join in, if you are alone there will be a chance to ‘buddy up’ with a partner online.
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This New Year update starts with a Farewell Message from Rev. Mandy and includes:
… and the usual listings of services and contacts but first:
Dear Friends
I neither anticipated nor expected to be writing to you at this time, but, because of Paul’s accident, and the consequences of it, the 27th December 2020, was, sadly, my last working Sunday.
Colchester will join the rest of Essex in Tier 4 a minute after midnight Xmas Day. After that non-essential services & shops will be closed and we are asked to stay at home apart from exercise, shopping etc…
No household mixing indoors is allowed. You can leave your home to exercise by yourself, with your Continue reading “Here we go again – Stay at home & Advent News”
Churches Old & New with Christmas NewsThis news update starts with Christmas News from the Old Church, then:
The Friends of St Mary’s are sad to have to cancel the Carol Service there again this year as they cannot organise it in a COVID-safe way. However, Continue reading “Churches Old & New with Christmas News & More”
The First Window OpensThis news round-up starts with the First Window opening this evening and then also covers:
Inspired by other places around the country that turn their village into a giant advent calendar, St Mary’s are very grateful to those who volunteered to decorate a window representing a part of the nativity story.
The idea is that each window has a number in it representing their day and that the actual design is not revealed until the allocated day. The revealed designs are then lit each Continue reading “The First Window Opens This Evening (& other news)”
West Bergholt as a Giant Advent Calendar?St Mary’s Church wants to turn the village into a giant Advent Calendar; do you want to be involved? In other news, do you fancy sitting on the bench?
To celebrate Christmas and what it means to our community, we would like to turn West Bergholt into a giant advent calendar! The idea is to use 24 windows around the village with 1 new window being revealed each day. Each window will tell part of the Christmas story. You can look for a new window each day or save a few and do a trail!
Would you like your house or shop to be part of the village advent calendar? You can use an upstairs or downstairs window providing it is visible to people passing by.
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A Miscellany of NewsThis news round-up covers a miscellany of news including:
St Mary’s are rightly Continue reading “A Miscellany of News – From Quiz to Scams”