ST JAMES’ CHURCH SCARECROW AND FLOWER FESTIVAL 2017
SEPTEMBER
9TH AND 10TH
This event will take place in the village of High
Wych, Sawbridgeworth, Herts CM21 0HY on the above weekend. This will be the second year we have run this
event.
Scarecrows will line the main road from The Hand and
Crown PH to High Wych School and also the short stretch of road past the park
up to The Manor of Groves Hotel.
There will also be a display of 250 pairs of
wellington boots filled with flowers along the route.
The centre of the festival will be at St James’
Church – the only church in the village.
There will be parking facilities in The Memorial Hall next to the church
and in the school playground on the other side of the church.
The churchyard will be filled with further scarecrows
and craft and other stalls with a barbecue and a children’s trail. There will be further stalls inside the
church where coffee and tea and refreshments can be bought.
Our wonderful team of flower arrangers headed by
Rosemarie will depict the theme of “Musicals” in the church.
The event will be on Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm and on
Sunday from 11 am till 4 pm.
Late Sunday afternoon we will literally have a “Boot
Sale” where wellington boots filled with flowers can be purchased.
Anyone is welcome to make a scarecrow - or it can be
a character made out of different materials to straw.
If you would like a stall please see the booking form
and contact Ruth Buckmaster.
If you are going to make a scarecrow please ring Janet
Bellingham on 07882743627 or 01279 724247 (leave a message and I’ll get back to
you) so that I can tell you what day to erect your creation etc or indeed
please ring if you would like to help or have any questions regarding the event.
We pray for sunshine and a weekend of community spirit
and fun.
ST JAMES HIHG WYCH SCARECROW FLOWER FESTIVAL
ST JAMES CHURCH, HIGH WYCH
SATURDAY 9TH AND SUNDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER 2017
STALLHOLDERS’
BOOKING FORM
__________________________________________________________________Name of stallholder ……………………………………………………………….
Address and contact number ………………………………………………………
Email ……………………………………..
Stall ………………………………..
Days … Saturday
Sunday (Please circle which you wish to book)
Payment of £30 for 2 days/ £20 for 1 day due on
booking
(please
make cheques payable to St James High
Wych Fundraising Group)
Notes:
1.
Deadline
for bookings 31st July
2.
The
market will be open from 10 am until 4 pm on Saturday
12 pm until 4 pm on Sunday.
3.
Stallholders
will have access to the church grounds for the purpose of setting up their
stall from 9 am on Saturday 11 am on Sunday.
Earlier access is not possible.
4.
Contact
point for queries: Ruth Buckmaster – telephone 01279 725428, e-mail: buckmasterruth@yahhoo.com.
23 Rowney Gardens, Sawbridgeworth, Herts CM21 0A
RECTOR’S JUNE LETTER
Render
to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s! (Matthew 22: 21)
I have been looking back at what I wrote in May 2015 just
before the last General Election. My
approach hasn’t changed. Part of being a
good citizen is to participate in the democratic process. That means turning out to vote at all
elections. People vote for different
reasons. You may vote on a particular
issue or because you want a particular person to live in 10 Downing
Street. This time it may just be over
Brexit. Whatever our approach, we have a
civic duty to register to vote and exercise our vote. Otherwise, we have no right to complain about
the outcome.
Of course, what Jesus said in Matthew 22 did not end with
the quote above. The full quotation is “Render to Caesar the things that are
Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Yes, we have our civic duty but we also have
a higher duty. For Christians and other
religious believers, that is a duty to God to seek his will for our lives and
to follow it. Others may see it as a
duty to a wider humanity, to do good rather than evil, to leave the world a
better place than we found it. We all
need to work out what that higher duty means for us as we live out our lives
day by day.
This moth we celebrate two major festivals in church. Sunday 4th June is Pentecost.
Pentecost was originally a Jewish Pilgrim Festival fifty days after Passover,
when Jews from all over the world travelled to Jerusalem to celebrate. It falls ten days after Ascension Day when we
celebrate Jesus being taken back into heaven.
According to Acts chapter 2, the room where the disciples were gathered
began to shake, there was the sound of a great wind and tongues of flame
appeared on their heads. There began to
speak in strange languages and rushed out into the street telling people about
Jesus. Instead of speaking Aramaic,
their local language, they were speaking in the many home languages of people
from all over the known world. The Holy
Spirit had been poured out on the Church and the spreading of the Christian
Gospel had begun.
One week late on June 11th we celebrate Trinity
Sunday when we remind ourselves of how Christians learned to understand God as
one God in three person, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We then start what we call Ordinary Time
which lasts all the way through to October.
It is a time to grow in faith and put into practice all we have learned
and celebrate through Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter.
Anthony Giles,
Rector.
From the Registers
Baptisms
23rd
April
High Wych
Emilia
Violet Lily Fletcher
Funerals
2nd
May
Funeral and
Burial
High Wych
Sheila Marie
Rose
10th
May
Burial
High Wych
Richard Erie
Cofield