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Hannah Babiak GoodGood NewsNews ParishParish MagazineMagazine High Downs Parish Serving the villages of Eastling, Otterden, Stalisfield and Throwley for current and past editions go to: http://www.goodnews.rf.gd Eastling’s Pumpkin Lottery Saturday 31st October and Eastling Church Carl’s Halloween event Harvest Festival all the the Carpenters Arms with Holy Communion by extension Please don’t let Covid discourage you 10.30am on 4th October from participating. Food donations will go to Faversham Foodbank Further instructions on page 4 Creator God, Classes include: You made the goodness of the land, The largest; the smallest, most weird the riches of the sea and wonderful; most artistically carved pumpkin; most amusing; most and the rhythm of the seasons; archaeologically interesting. As we thank you for the harvest With separate Under 15s- may we cherish and respect this planet and categories as above. its peoples, Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen To be held by kind permission of Carl at (From Common Worship. Additional Collects © Archbishops’ The Carpenters Arms, Eastling, according Council, 2000) to the latest Government Covid rules. P R A Y E R What is prayer? But prayer is an important back Prayer is basically having a bone to the Christian Faith. At present a number of conversation with God. We pray to a God who wants people, including myself, are But how can you do that? to be in a relationship with going through The Prayer And anyway a conversation us. Maintaining any relation- Course (which you can find is meant to be a two way thing! ship needs communication online through a search I came across this headline and usually conversation and engine). There is always from the Church Times this equally applies to our something to learn. One way published in May this year: relationship with God. to help with Prayer is to use More people praying But prayer often doesn’t come the word Pray. during lockdown, survey naturally. Even Jesus’ closest suggests followers asked him to ‘Teach Pause: To start with Pause - … and the article started us to pray”. He answered: I think we have been better at with : One in 20 adults have “When you pray, say: this during the year with all started to pray during the ‘Father, hallowed be your its restrictions! Pause to lockdown, despite not name, your kingdom come. recognise that we are coming praying before, a new Give us each day our daily before God. Psalm 46:10 survey published by the bread. reads, ‘Be still and know that charity Tearfund suggests. Forgive us our sins, for we I am God’. The online poll of 2101 also forgive everyone who adults was published on sins against us. Rejoice: Rejoice in who Sunday. Five per cent of And lead us not into God is as Almighty God, respondents said that they temptation. Creator, Father, Jesus Holy had started to pray during Luke 11:2-4 Spirit. Many of the Psalms are the lockdown, having not great to read to rejoice with prayed before. What we know as The Lord’s Prayer which as well as (e.g. Psalm 8). The survey was carried out being a prayer, is a pattern in the last week of April so I for prayer. sk: A time to make do not know whether those A requests of God for others who have started praying Firstly he says address God and for ourselves. have continued or of course as Father - not a normal term whether there are those for the Almighty God, creator ield: A time to be in God’s who had been praying of all things, in the day, but Y before lockdown but have Jesus is underlining that this presence, listening out for since stopped. is all about relationship. Him, submitting to Him, the God who loves us. We continue to pray for each Lord, we pray with Prayer Pointers other, our communities and open hands to our nation at this time. receive the October 2020 Steve Lillicrap Fruit of the Spirit Mondays - Love: that we may love others as you have loved us. The Annual Church Tuesdays - Joy: to override sadness that we may see the beauty of your world. Meeting Wednesdays - Peace: to strengthen us in our daily lives. for this year is on Zoom on Thursdays - Patience: that we may trust you to answer our prayers in your way, October 18th not ours. starting at 7.30 pm - Fridays - Kindness and Goodness: that we may not count the cost of helping others. please see notices at each Saturdays - Faithfulness: to follow you daily and Gentleness: to work calmly Church or email me for in difficult times. details: Sundays - Self control: to keep our resolve and not be side tracked by an easier path. highdownsvicar@gmail. com Otterden and Stalisfield W.I. THROWLEY A few of our members took SCARECROW advantage of the good weather last week as we spent a very pleasant lunchtime together in the garden of The Plough at Stalisfield. Some of us were From Pat and Des Briggs understandably nervous, but we THANK YOU were able to take our own chairs COMPETITION so that we could really spread to Marianne and Richard, Design and build your own out. Our thanks to Marianne and Plough Inn, for food deliveries Scarecrow. Entries will be her staff for a lovely lunch and to Dr Norwood for collecting our judged on 5th November. Various categories including for making us feel really safe prescriptions and secure. It gave us a chance best dressed; most like owner! and to Cat Horn for shopping to see friends we had not seen Please contact Gaynore Moss since our last meeting in early for us during Lockdown. [email protected] for March. details. LADY GARDENER GARDEN CLEARANCE Christina’s Mobile Hairdressing available for pruning, planting, No job too small. Weddings & special occasions catered for weeding, mowing etc. Mowing, strimming. Trees topped/removed. 27 years experience Regular visits or one-off tidy up. Fences and gates erected. Mob: 07894 524166 Minimum 2 hours For a free quote call Call Bev on 01795 890705 Nick Swatland 01795 886814 Email: [email protected] Mobile: 0775 283 0979 mobile 07713 766141 A stylist who cares The Plough Inn, Stalisfield It's that time of year again - The launching our Christmas day menu!!! Under these current conditions it has been hard for us to plan what we are doing so we have decided to come up with two options as we don't know if social distancing will be lifted. If it isn't, as you can imagine, doing half the amount of covers on Christmas day would not be financially viable for us. So, if social distancing is no more, we will be offering our usual eat in menu, however, in the more likely scenario of continued distancing we will be offering a takeaway hamper menu where all the work is done for you and depending on your requirements can even be ready to go on Christmas day. When you book you will be asked for a non-refundable £10 per person deposit – however if social distancing is still in place and we can only offer a takeaway service then we will refund this if you do not wish to proceed with the takeaway option. (Complicated I know; but in the ‘new normal’ lots of things seem to be any queries give us a call.) Our prices will also be reduced reflecting the change of service. We would also like to know if anyone would be thinking about joining us for their usual Christmas day beverage, we understand that it’s some time away so there is no urgency, we are just trying to plan and provide you all the best service we can in these uncertain times. Good news - Boxing Day we will be back to normal – albeit the new normal! Marianne, Richard & Nathan! Please call 01795 890256 or https://theploughinnstalisfield.co.uk email [email protected] Keep up to date by following us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram Revised rules for Eastling’s Pumpkin Lottery and Carl’s Halloween event. The Carpenters Arms. Saturday 31st Oct Please don’t let Covid discourage you from participating! To be held by kind permission of Carl at The Carpenters Arms, Eastling, according to the latest Government Covid rules. There is no limit to the number of pumpkins you can enter for the Pumpkin Lottery- the more the merrier! Programme 11.00 am-12.00 noon: Pumpkins to be delivered to the outside display tables at the pub. • There will be two displays- one for the Under 15’s 2.00 pm: Pumpkin lottery display revealed along with entries and one for all the rest. certificates and prizes for winning pumpkins. • Please write your name on one side of a card or paper and place it under your pumpkin so that it isn’t 5.30 pm: display and lighting of pumpkins . visible to the judges until after the judging has occurred. Any exhibition specimens that are not collected will be put • The team of judges will decide on which pumpkins on the Community table. should win a prize- you may be surprised by the prize category your pumpkin wins! The judges’ 7.00 pm: Carl’s Halloween Evening- run according decisions are final. to new rules. Waitress service . Only seated guests allowed. Serving - Veg curry and rice or Chilli and rice. The award groups are: £10.00 per head The largest -by measurement of the circumference- judged Free meal for 2 for the best fancy dress. by Dorothy and Jumbo Reeve Book your table early! The smallest - judged by Clem Mitchell and Nina.