| Friends' Spring Newsletter | | Welcome to the Sixth Newsletter from the Friends of the Parish Church and find out what they have been doing over the last year to help our church.
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| Fundraising for Ukraine | | Two recent events organised by St Mary's Church Saffron Walden to raise funds for the crisis in Ukraine. A concert featuring our choir and friends and our most junior choir Joyful Noise
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| Choral Evensong - 13 February 2022 | | A chance to listen to a recording of this service. The conductor was Jeremy Allen, organist was Oli King, cantor was Eden Faith and soloist in the Bairstow was Alison Lawrence.
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| Covid-19 Update | | It is no longer necessary to pre-book to attend services at St Mary’s but we are keeping some measures in place for everyone’s benefit and face coverings must be worn during services.
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| New Assistant Curate | | Ella Harris will be our new assistant curate from September 2022. She will be licensed to the Team but will focus her ministry jointly on the Cam Villages Churches and St Mary's, Saffron Walden.
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| Opportunities for enthusiastic young singers | | Opportunities for enthusiastic young singers to join one of our two lively groups. Age ranges are 5½ to 7½ for Joyful Noise and 7½ to 13 years for the Junior Choir. If you think this is for you and would like more information, please contact Bron Ferland
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| New Organ Scholar appointed | | The second Michael Swindlehurst Organ Scholar is Yechan Yun, a 16-year-old pupil in the sixth form at the Perse School. Yechan says, “I was motivated to start playing the organ 6 years ago ...
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| Scything the wildflower areas of the churchyard | | Scything the wildflower areas of the churchyard is now complete, and the grasses or ‘windrows’ will be raked and removed next week. This is all part of our work as an Eco Church, which is also why we are taking part the Great Big Green Week.
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| Repair to the Chancel Roof | | We need to replace the Chancel roof which was last renewed in 1959. The work will start in mid September and last about 16 weeks and will involve scaffolding on the outside of the Chancel.
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| Church Eco Group | | Hannah and James Razzell from the St Mary's Eco Group placing a nesting box in one of the trees in the churchyard. Photo by Alan Hawkes. Visit our Eco Church pages for more information about our Eco Church Group and Climate Change.
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| Organ Scholarship | | We are currently looking for our next Organ Scholar who will hopefully start working with us in the early autumn. The scholarship is worth £752 plus lessons. If you know of anyone who might be interested....
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| Ascension Day Sunrise Photos | | Many thanks to Celia Bartlett Photography for these very atmospheric photos taken from our church rooftop at sunrise on Ascension Day 13th May 2021.
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| Updated Organ Leaflet | | There was apparently an organ in St Mary’s as early as 1451. The present organ is a descendant of one built in 1824 by John Vincent. Rebuilt in 1885 by T. C. Lewis and subsequent further rebuilds. Find out more in our recently updated Organ Leaflet..
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| New Team Rector | | We are delighted to announce that the Rev’d Jeremy Trew has been appointed Team Rector of the Saffron Walden and Villages Team Ministry and Area Dean and will start his ministry here in early March 2021.
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| Download our App for your Smartphone | | We now have an App that can be downloaded to your smartphone. This will mean that at a touch of a button you can access the whole website and also visit the main areas with ease. To download our App for your smartphone .....
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| Bronze Eco Church award | | We are thrilled to have been awarded the Bronze Eco Church award. Edward said, “We are particularly pleased that, in a time of Covid and lockdown, we have been able to stay active, particularly in the churchyard and with local environmental organisations.
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| Online Choral Evensong - October 2020 | | We have put together an online Choral Evensong for October 2020 despite the extra challenges of doing this online during the Covid-19 restrictions. Thanks to members of our choir including soloists, organist, Director of Music Oli King and Marisa Baltrock
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| Ave Maris Stella - Titelouze. | | Ave Maris Stella (Hail Star of the Sea) recorded live in St Mary's Church Saffron Walden for our Patronal Festival September 2020. The singer is Peter De Vile and Oli King is playing the organ.
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| Next Bishop of Chelmsford | | The process to identify the next Bishop of Chelmsford is well underway and the Diocese of Chelmsford’s Vacancy in see Committee - the group that manages and oversees the Diocese’s role in the process- has published its Statement of Needs.
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| Locus iste | | Locus iste - Anton Bruckner - sung by the choir of St Mary's Church, Saffron Walden. This sacred motet was composed by Anton Bruckner in 1869. Often sung for the annual celebration of a church's dedication.
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| Our Eco Churchyard | | The Eco Church has been working in the churchyard for several months, planting wild flowers and encouraging biodiversity. Here are some photos of the wild flowers that have been thriving because of our new reduced mowing regime.
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| Organ and Choral Scholars during lockdown | | Music extracts from online worship - May 2020. St Mary's Church, Saffron Walden: Organ and Choral Scholars during lockdown.
God is Love:his the care, Come, my way, my truth, my life - Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Sing Hosanna.
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| 'The Lord ascended up on high' | | Sung by the the Under 18's of St Mary's Church Choir, Saffron Walden with music by Director of Music Oli King. Recorded individually online. 31st May 2020. Pentecost.
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| Sewards End 75th VE Day Aniversary | | The church bell rings to mark the silence and afternoon tea is taken St James church, Sewards End, along with the rest of the village, hung out flags to commemorate the anniversary of VE Day on 8th May 2020.
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| The music plays on | | The adults and choral scholars of our nearly 70 strong choir are continuing weekly choir practices online by Zoom. All parts of the choir (adults, choral scholars and juniors) are also working towards various online recording projects.
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| Holocaust Memorial Service | | 196 children from local schools and 124 adults including members of the Beth Shalom Synagogue in Cambridge attended the Holocaust Memorial Service hosted by St Mary's SW on Monday 27th January 2020.
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| Eco Church | | The Eco Church pages are now active on the St Mary’s website. Just click here or on the ‘Other’ tab on the home page and scroll down to Eco Church or go direct to www.stmaryssaffronwalden.org/ecochurch.
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| Waiting here for you | | 'Waiting here for you' - sung by Alison Knights at our Family Service on 15 December 2019 accompanied by Oli King on piano.
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| David's Farewell 23/24th November 2019 | | A great barn dance at the Chesterford Community Centre on the Saturday evening and a very moving Eucharist and farewell at St Mary's Saffron Walden on the Sunday morning attended by over 400 parishioners.
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| Lay Funeral Minister | | Judith Hasler has been authorised by Bishop Stephen as one of the first Lay
Funeral Ministers in the Diocese. She was commissioned on 12th October 2019, along with three others in a Celebration of Lay Ministry at Chelmsford Cathedral.
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| Do you play a Brass instrument? | | St Mary’s Brass meets on Monday evenings 6.15–7.15pm during term time. The group plays at various events in the year including our Easter Service, Christmas Carol Service and Christmas Fair. New members of any age are always welcome.
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| Harvest Festival 2019 | | St. Mary’s celebrated Harvest Festival at a special family service on Sunday 15th September. Members of St Mary’s Church Guides and Brownies attended the service and the church junior choir led the singing of traditional and contemporary harvest hymns.
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| Soul Survivor Photos 2019 | | A selection of photos from the last Soul Survivor camp at the Peterborough showground from 17th to 21st Aug 2019 which 5 members of our Aftershock youth group attended.
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| St Marys Flower Festival Photos 23-26 August 2019 | | St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden, was thronged by around 2,000 visitors enthralled by a grand Flower Festival during the August Bank Holiday Weekend. There were over 40 splendid exhibits by local flower arrangers, each representing a saint.
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| U3A Photoshoot at St Mary's | | Here is a selection of photos taken by members of Saffron Walden U3A's Photography Group in April 2019. Many thanks to Brian Eascott, David Powell, Graeme Cowling, Hugh Herdon, Martin Hugall, Tony Marks and Tony Treglown and to Gill Caswell for her help.
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| Songs of Praise 1986! | | BBC Songs of Praise at St Mary's Church in Saffron Walden in 1986. There are a number of familiar but younger faces that you might recognise!
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| David's Book | | David Tomlinson's Book called ‘Leading a Church to maturity in love’ is available for pre-order from Sacristy Press - go to their website - or any good book shop. ISBN: 978-1-78959-023-4, only £12.99.
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| Welcome to our New Website - 29 January 2019 | | Our new church website went live on Tuesday 29th January 2019. It is hosted by ChurchInsight.com who look after over 600 church websites and are based in Cambridge and are able to provide us with the level of support that we need.
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| There but not there... | | The seated silhouettes in the church and in the memorial garden are a commemorative installation to the fallen of the First World War who were linked to Sewards End, as part of a project called "There But Not There".
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| Soul Survivor 18-23 August 2018 | | 5 young people from our church joined with another 15 people from the Colchester area to attend Soul Survivor at the Peterborough Showground for 6 days in August 2018.
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| Ordination to the Priesthood - 29 Sept 2018 | | Ordination to the Priesthood on 29th September 2018 at St Mary’s Church Saffron Walden. Rachel Prior and John Saxon and others were ordained priests by Rt Revd Roger Morris, the area Bishop of Colchester.
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| Harvest Festival 16 Sept 2018 | | On 16th September 2018 – St. Mary’s celebrated Harvest Festival at a special family service. Members of St Mary’s Church Guides Section attended the service and the church junior choir led the singing of traditional and contemporary harvest hymns.
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| New Team Vicar | | Revd Alex JeewanThe Rev’d Alex Jeewan was licensed on Wednesday 25th July 2018 as Team Vicar for the parishes of Great and Little Chesterford, Littlebury, Littlebury Green and Wendon’s Ambo within the Saffron Walden and Villages Team Ministry.
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| Rector on BBC Essex Radio | |
Listen to an interview with David Tomlinson about St Mary’s Church SW on BBC Essex Radio which was broadcast on Sunday 1st July 2018.
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| Christmas Fayre Nov 2017 Photos | | In achieving the much needed funding of £6,770, your contribution to the event, whether large or small, added much needed variety to attract people into our church. The mix was vital! Your co-operation was amazing! Thanks again!
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| The Making of Mary | | Tessa Hawkes gave an account of the making of Mary in Parish News for October 2014. In retelling the story to 20 fascinated listeners, she gave some new details.
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