Magazine
Our church magazine The Messenger is usually published monthly.
Various articles which have appeared in The Messenger will be published here from time to time.
We are now publishing extracts from the magazine in Adobe PDF format. You will need Abobe Reader to view them.
Previous Magazines
December 2011 / January 2012
- Looking at Essex Churches
- Stories and Reports from India
- Remembering Joan Tomalin
- What our American visitors found out...
- Shoot out at the Bazaar!!!
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November 2011
- Anniversaries, Memories and Remembrance
- Life as an Army Chaplain
- Missionary Boxes
- 'Praying Hands'
- Faith in Science
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October 2011
- The bible on debt and poverty
- John Baron MP calls in to the Fellowship
- Billericay Choral celebrates 40 years
- More church memories
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September 2011
- Our Assembly Moderator talks of God’s timescale
- Forty years on in Billericay…
- Visiting the home of HHI…
- Youth Choir’s Summer Concert
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July & August 2011
- 'Recording' Injustices in the Holy Land
- Sowing Seeds
- Life Changing Treatment
- Remembering.... Cyril and Eric
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June 2011
- The Emmaus Course - an invitation.
- A look at St George
- The Billericay Educational Trust
- The Gideons
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May 2011
- Christian Aid's Nicaraguan coffee project
- Chilean theme to Woman's World Day of Prayer
- National Childrens Homes - Betty Day's connection
- The Talking Newspaper
- The Charities Table Sale
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April 2011
- The Mayflower Ladies ‘Great Essex Feast’
- Ugandan Wholefoods come to Billericay
- Alwyn Knight reports to us on the life of Palestinians in the Hebron area.
- A new Bishop of Chelmsford
- Nester remembered
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March 2011
- Temptations and Lent
- Conversation about Worship
- The Sisters of Sinai
- A friend to all
- News about Emmaus
- A Prayer for trees
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February 2011
- Nativity Drama pictures: Chocks Away in a Manger
- We talk to the Lodemores
- The King James Bible: out of date?
- A Visit to Westminster College
- Trevor Jamison: Getting the most out of your daydreams
- Christmas giving and singing
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December 2010 / January 2011
- Trevor Jamison: Carols - Getting the Christmas Message?
- Achieving the Millennium Goals
- A Peace Fair for One World Week
- Bazaar Pictures and all the Christmas Events
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November 2010
- Trevor Jamison: What makes a good church
- What we learned at Debden
- Imtiah Khan talks about the London City Mission
- Endpiece: Being different from the Crowd
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October 2010
- Report on Barleylands
- Trevor Jamison: Clearing the Ground for Evangelism
- What the Ejected did at Billericay and Eyam
- Talking to Ann Mynott
- Trudy Cox and St Luke’s Hospice
- ‘Conversations with Jesus’ explored at Quiet Day
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September 2010
- Elias Chacour: Working for Peace in the Holy Land
- Thoughts on Dives and Lazarus
- Young People address the URC Assembly
- Endpiece: A good Harvest for everyone
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July / August 2010
- Trevor Jamison: The Meaning of Sacrifice
- Naboth’s Vineyard: The Movie
- The Cater Museum celebrates 50 years
- Centrepoint helps to heal the broken society
- Endpiece: God’s politics – not a Sunday thing
- A way of Counting our Blessings… HHI in India
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June 2010
- Trevor Jamison: A Hung Church
- John Lovett looks back
- The Billericay Youth Choir moves forward
- Coastwatch: Eyes along the Coast
- Endpiece: Sins can be overcome
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May 2010
- Trevor Jamison: Letter to our next Prime Minister
- Exploring Neasden Temple
- Fred Kaan: a radical modern hymn writer
- Hagar and her place in the Old Testament Story
- Endpiece: Christian Aid Week is faith in action
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April 2010
- Peggy Nisbet Remembered
- Trevor Jamison: Blessed are the flexible?
- Women of the Cameroons lead Day of Prayer
- How we are supporting the people of Gaza
- A visit from Richard Jones of Biblelands
- Our hymn singing – your ideas welcome.
- Endpiece: An Innocent Man is put to Death
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March 2010
- Trevor Jamison: Annual Church Meetings: no navel gazing!
- ARK puts questions to the Minister
- John Marsh, Moderator, challenges us to pilgrimage
- An Appreciation of Barry Davis, our Organist
- Endpiece: Toward a fairer society
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February 2010
- Trevor Jamison: Lent comes before Easter
- We talk to Ken Woods
- Disabled create a Horticultural Project in Bangalore
- Hylands House and Gardens: on our doorsteps!
- Youth Choir Concert We host the CTB service
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December 2009 / January 2010
- Trevor Jamison: Nativity Plays and Real History
- The Real Meaning of the First Christmas
- Ibrahim Jaber: A Christmas Message from Bethlehem
- Maurice Stockdale: My memories of Christmas in Yorkshire
- In pictures: Our Dickensian Bazaar
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November 2009
- Recalling Bible Stories: What our memories really tell us
- We host the CTB Pilgrimage, and get to know the real Calvin
- Dropping in on Ann and Robert Elliott
- St Paul: Persecutor, Convert and Missioner
- In pictures: Scenes from our Church Weekend
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October 2009
- Job: Our book of the month
- What we got from our quiet day
- Well, what would you say to a politician if he rang you ?
- In pictures: The Barleylands scene. How we celebrated Harvest
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September 2009
- Survey Analysis: What are our real Wants and Needs?
- CTB Churches on Pilgrimage: Litergy reflecting our lives
- Working for reconciliation in the Holy Land
- In pictures: Chernobyl children at Stockbrook, School Concert, the New Kitchen
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July / August 2009
- What next for the Holy Land?
- Trevor Jamison: The Meaning of 'Born Again'
- A family history leads back to America
- The Creation Story in pictures
- Happy Anniversary John Calvin
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June 2009
- Question Time looks at the Bible
- Opportunities for Christian Learning and Serving
- Kate Hackett reflects on her time with the Joint Pastorate
- Christian Aid campaigns against corporate Tax-dodging
- The Fellowship goes to Valentines
- Endpiece: The Spirit challenges us at Pentecost
- A Novel set in Guatemala
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May 2009
- Trevor Jamison: CCTV and Christ the unseen Guest
- Brian Porter returns to the Gambia
- Barabbas and Simon the Zealot - A play explores their roles
- Celebrating Traidcraft after 30 years
- The Good Friday walk - a Community event
- Endpiece: Caravaggio paints Doubting Thomas
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April 2009
- Billericay, the G20 and the world Credit Crunch
- Hosea: The e-mails revealed
- Memories of Andrew Forde, including the Poem
- Churches Together: Witnessing to and serving the Town
- St Paul at Holy Redeemer
- Question time with The Moderator
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March 2009
- The vulnerable and ourselves
- St Nicholas Church Leipzig: Home of Bach, and peaceful demonstration
- Reopening Valentines Mansion
- Trevor Jamison: Which bread of life?
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February 2009
- A Christmas visit to the Southend Night Shelter
- Beryl and Colin: Their Story
- Alf Poge: A Tribute
- Trevor Jamison: Do we really read our Bibles?
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December 2008 / January 2009
- Pictures from our Musical Bazaar
- Report from Zimbabwe
- The Minister: Christmas celebrations can peak too early
- An important Church meeting
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November 2008
- Our Church Weekend: How Pictures can move us more than words.
- OctoberFest: Sight and Sound in full measure
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October 2008
- The fifth Mark of Mission and the plastic bottles
- The remarkable true story of a Chinese Christian
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September 2008
- A Yorkshireman looks back on his life in Essex
- Life in Palestine under Occupation today
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July/August 2008
- The Voyage of the Mayflower inspires a new cantata
- My experience of death made me into an evangelist
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June 2008
- Learning about the Faith of Islam
- An approach to Bible Reading
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May 2008
- Our American friends discover 'Oneness in Christ in Venezuela'
- Congratulations! You've just won a cruise!
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April 2008
- A Final Look at Climate Change – for the time being!
- A Prize-winning short story
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March 2008
- John Henry Newman and 'Lead Kindly Light'
- Speaking our Faith
- What the Bible says about Climate Change
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February 2008
- Our Minister in America
- Violent Times in Gaza
- Announcing our Lent Study Course
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December 2007/January 2008
- A Christmas Message
- Will the Age of Gold really come round again?
- The Year in Pictures
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