No: 620 September 2021

Thanks to Nick Miller for the Masthead

100 Club WINNER The Recreation Trust are pleased to announce that the August winner of their monthly 100 Club Draw

is: Number 83: Debbie Moore All profits go to improving our facilities in

and around the Village Hall and surrounding play area.

Many thanks for your continued support. If you don’t yet have a number, please visit Gill

at Ingate House on Church Road, where we have a number of numbers (!) available.

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Thanks to Nick Miller for the Masthead

Just to say a huge thank you to everyone that attended the car wash on Saturday 31st July in aid

of St Helena Hospice – It was a massive success and the best one so far raising an unbelievable £1210.00!!

Mandy & the team @ Co’dair Design & Publicity Ltd Tel: 01206 243154 Email: mcant@codair.co.uk

Also thank you to people that couldn’t make it but gave generous donations (Which we are still collecting should

you wish to contribute!)

Welcome Back Family Quiz

7.30pm on Friday 24th September @ Wormingford Village Hall

… teams of 4 to 6 … a lot of fun for all the family … licensed bar & nibbles … £3 per person

All proceeds to Wormingford Recreation Trust

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ST ANDREW’S CHURCH services in September

OTHER SERVICES IN THE BENEFICE – September Mount Bures - St John the Baptist

Little Horkesley - St Peter & St Paul

5th 11.00 Community Service with Emma 12th 11.00 Morning Service with Hugh and Julia 19th 11.00 Harvest Festival with Emma 26th 11.00 Matins with Michael Foster & Joy Budden Oct 3rd 11.00 Community Service with Emma

5th 9.15 Community Service with Emma 12th No Service 19th 9.15 Harvest Festival with Emma 26th No Service Oct 3rd 11.00 Community Service with Emma

5th 11.00 Morning Service BCP with Hugh and Julia 12th 6.30 Evening Service (Phyll Wood) 19th 6.30 Evening Service + HC with Revd James Ridge 26th 6.30 Evening Service BCP with Emma Oct 3rd 11.00 Morning Service BCP with Christopher Orme

The Worms kick-off their their 21/22 season with difficult away games on the 4th September - the first team, in Division 3, against Flitch United and our stiffs, in Division 5, against newly formed Roman Rovers, in Colchester. Our Sunday boys start a day later, on the 5th, playing Fifteen Degrees in the Premier Division of the Colchester Sunday League. I know it doesn’t mean much, but all 3 teams are undefeated in their pre-season friendlies! Between the 3 teams we currently have 73 players registered, which may seem like a lot, but essential when field-ing 3 teams every week - injuries, holidays, work etc etc come into play far too regularly!

Churchwardens: Mike Crisp – 07747 623172 & Richard Batterham - 01787 228172

St Andrew’s Church News After two years without a Priest in Charge it is good to be able to share the following announcement:-

From Bishop Roger and Archdeacon Ruth

We are pleased to be able to formally announce the good news that, subject to appropriate DBS clearance, the Revd Heather Wilcox has been appointed as Priest in Charge of West Bergholt with Great Horkesley, Langham with Boxted, Wormingford & Mount Bures with Little Horkesley.

Heather is currently the Team Rector for the Long Stratton and Pilgrim Team Ministry and Rural Dean of the Depwade Deanery in the Diocese of Norwich. She worked in nursing for 15 years prior to her ordination in 2008. Married to Geraint and with two grown up children, Megan and Luke and a dog, Benji, Heather enjoys spending time with the family, taking walks and being crea-tive.

We hope that Bishop Roger will be able to license Heather to her new responsibilities in Novem-ber and we will confirm this in due course.

Heather says:

I am passionate about rural ministry and particularly love the breadth of traditions and diversity rural par-ishes embrace. I am looking forward to serving in these parishes and getting to know everyone and to see-ing where God is leading. I have served in the Long Stratton and Pilgrim Team for 10 very happy years, and will miss being part of the community and my many friends, but I know that God is calling me and the Long Stratton and Pilgrim Team to something new.

We look forward to welcoming Heather and ask for your prayers for her and for her family as they prepare to move and as she prepares to take up her new ministry.

Dates for your diaries:-

Friday 10th September 11.00am – Memorial service for John Jackson.

Sunday 19th September – Harvest Festival service with Emma at 11.00am followed by our –

Dragon Day event starting around 3.00pm with a talk from Liz Trenow (Author of ‘The Secrets of the Lake’ set around Wormingford) at 4.00pm. Admission will be £5.00 (children FOC) which will include a Dragon Hunt for children, tea/coffee/soft drinks and cake.

The Wormingford Book Club will be starting again on Wednesday 8th September and until further notice will be meeting at the Crown - starting at 7pm, discussions usually last about an hour. This first get together for the past 18 months will be a chance to talk about the books we have each read during lockdown - which in my case will be impos-sible, having read between 60 and 80 books! ( reading mostly thrillers, I just about remember the one I’ve just read and the one I’m reading!)

Why not come along and join this small but extremely friendly group?

Well done to Gill, Peter, Janine and the other trustees of the Recreation Trust (plus one or two others) for all their hard work in putting together this excellent day of fun activities - enjoyed

by local residents and, looking at the number of cars, many from outside the area! One or two pics below

A man absolutely hated his wife's cat and decided to get rid of him one day by driving him 20 blocks from his home and leaving him at the park. As he was getting home, the cat was walking up the driveway. The next day he decided to drive the cat 40 blocks away. He put the beast out and headed home. Driving back up his driveway, there was the cat! He kept taking the cat further and further and the cat would always beat him home. At last he decided to drive a few miles away, turn right, then left, past the bridge, then right again and another right until he reached what he thought was a safe dis-tance from his home and left the cat there. Hours later the man calls home to his wife: "Jen, is the cat there?" "Yes", the wife answers, "why do you ask?" Frustrated, the man answered, "Put that son of a bitch on the phone, I'm lost and need directions!"