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Throwley Church The Friends of Churches Sponsored Bike Ride and Walk Harvest Festival (part of the national Ride+Stride) and Patronal Service takes place on 10.30am on 27th September Saturday 12th September 2020. All food donations will go to Catching https://www.kentrideandstride.co.uk Lives and Foodbank Plan your own route, there are about 700 of places of worship open. Ask your relations, friends and colleagues to sponsor Morning Prayer will be at 10.30am on you – so much per church or chapel visited between 10am and 13th September 6pm on the day. This is recorded on a special sponsor form. Please ask them to tick for Gift Aid if they are tax payers; this increases their donations by 25% with no cost to them. Eastling Church Sponsorship forms are available in Eastling Harvest Festival Church or download from this link: form. To be confirmed but probably 10.30am on 4th October 50% of sponsorship money raised goes to the church or chapel chosen by the participant, All food donations will go to Faversham with the other 50% going to the Friends of Kent Churches, who Foodbank use it to help the most needy churches in the County. Canon Paul Hardingham considers a best-loved psalm Psalm 23 - a psalm for the pandemic

There are few psalms as personal and real as Psalm 23. It records David’s experience of God as his Shepherd going through dark times. In the midst of the effects of a global pandemic, this psalm Churches open for speaks to the fears that can overwhelm Private Prayer us. continue: He Knows Me: ‘The We are pleased to invite Lord is my shepherd…’ Just as parishioners into our churches a good shepherd knows every He Protects Me: ‘Even though I for private prayer . sheep in his flock, so God walk through the darkest know each one of us valley…’ Just as the sheep have Throwley church intimately. no need to fear danger when is open on Wednesdays and following the shepherd, so we He Provides for Me: ‘He Sundays 10am-6pm for private live knowing God’s presence and makes me lie down in green prayer. protection. pastures…’ Just as the Eastling church shepherd knows the needs of He Comforts Me: ‘your rod and is open on Sundays, Tuesdays his sheep, so God will provide your staff, they comfort me.’ As and Thursdays, 12noon - 4pm what we need in our lives and the shepherd’s rod defends the for private prayer. circumstances. sheep, and the staff enables him To help keep us all safe please use to control the sheep, so God He Guides Me: ‘He guides me the hand sanitiser, comforts us through His Word only use the open pews and along the right paths…’ Just and discipline. do not enter cordoned off areas. as the shepherd leads the If there are others in the sheep to the best pastures, so Some years ago, a great actor Church, please follow social God provides the best for us, was asked to recite Psalm 23, but distancing rules. as we listen and follow Him. he asked one of the other guests to do the same. His remarkable rendition was followed by the other man, an older Christian Prayer Pointers speaking from the heart. Afterwards the actor said: September 2020 ‘The difference between us is that Mondays - Heavenly Father, we give thanks for the food we eat, help us I know the psalm, to value its nourishment and offer a share to others. but he knows the Shepherd.’ Tuesdays - We pray for all who are hungry and give thanks for food aid. The final verses of the psalm offer the security of knowing Wednesdays - Pray for students going back into education. that our lives are in His hands, Thursdays - Pray for teaching staff in schools and colleges. even through death, as He leads Fridays - Pray for those made redundant or not having enough money to feed us to the home we’ve been and clothe their family. looking for all our lives. Saturdays - Pray for all carers, nurses, doctors and other medical staff. ‘Surely your goodness and love Sundays - We seek your blessing Lord on ourselves and those around us. will follow me, all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.’ High Downs Parish Sunday Services Rector Reverend Canon Dr. Steve Lillicrap 6th September 01795 522510 [email protected] Eastling 10.30am Holy Communion 13th September Reader Norman Fowler (01795 890412) 4 Meesons Close, Eastling Throwley 10.30am Morning Prayer Reader Caroline Ramshaw (07799 538809) 27th September 4 Glebe Cottages, Eastling Throwley 10.30am Harvest and Patronal Churchwardens Festival Eastling Andrew Baxter (01795 890598) 4th October Administrator Janet Payne Eastling 10.30am Harvest Festival (TBC) E mail: [email protected] Stalisfield with Otterden Services in Kingsdown and Creekside Jean West (01233 712270) churches are yet to be confirmed Administrator Sheila Moger (01233 463746) E mail: [email protected] **** Sunday Readings: Throwley Gaynore Moss (01795 890995) 6th September Trinity 13 Romans 13. 8 - 14, Parish Office Email: [email protected] Matthew 18. 15 - 20 facebook.com/highdownsbenefice 13th September Trinity 14 Romans 14.1 - 12 Matthew 18. 21 - 35 20th September Trinity 15 Philippians 1. 21-30 CONTACT THE GOOD NEWS EDITOR Matthew 20. 1 - 16 Hilary Harlow 01795 890338 27th September Trinity 16 Philippians 2. 1 -13 Matthew 21. 23 - 32 If you would like submit articles or stories, or to advertise in the October 2020 magazine, send your submission by 4th October Trinity 17 Philippians 3.4b-14 20th September to: [email protected]. Matthew 21. 33 - 46 Past and current issues of the Good News may be viewed Online Daily Worship Continues on ccgi.northdowns.plus.com/goodnews or www.goodnews.rf.gd As well as the services in our churches, the daily online services will continue on the Kingsdown and Creekside website - www.kingsdowncreekside.co.uk - also on the YouTube Channel ‘Breakthrough at ’. More information is updated weekly on St Mary’s Eastling ‘A Church Near You’: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/11982/ Wags & Tales Garden Services Year Round Horticultural Care Local RHS qualified gardener ! Planting advice. Containers & baskets. Rotovating. Pruning. Professional Hedge trimming. Home from Home Dog Boarding ! Professional lawn care: One family’s dog/dogs at a time, Izzy's Odd Jobs Scarifying, turfing, aerating in our home, we have 3 acres and lovely and treatments. walks For all your general jobs: ! Organic and wildlife friendly Fully Insured, Enhanced DBS Check Gardening, DIY, Cleaning, approach! Canine first aid course. Animals (i.e. horses, dogs, cats, etc.). Also Dog Walking service If interested/have any enquiries for the surrounding areas. contact me on 07455 394605. Phone or Text Mike on: For more details please contact: Always happy to help. 07746 220 998 Trudie on 01795 890114 References available on request. or 0771 4455 769 Email: [email protected] Pumpkin Lottery News is filtering through about some amazing pumpkin growth. Keep watering and feeding your prize specimen as the Pumpkin Lottery display and prize giving will be held on the semi circular lawn in front of The Manor on Saturday afternoon, 31st October 2020. There will be prizes for largest, funniest, smallest, most elaborately carved and For three weekends in August, other weird and wonderful categories. September and October – At 6.00 pm the carved pumpkins will be Collections is holding Heritage Orchard lit for all to enjoy and there will be Days to help save the Charity’s heritage orchards. pumpkin soup on sale. www.brogdalecollections.org/ Full details of this grand occasion will be product/heritage-orchard-days/ in October’s Good News but if you have Each day visitors will be able to enjoy any queries or feel able to help on the orchard walks, fruit displays, juice day or to contribute a prize, please tastings, a family apple trail, cider sales contact John Lees on the Community and more. Included in the ticket price, WhatsApp or on 892036. for the first time, visitors will also be able to harvest their own apples and enjoy the use of Brogdale’s lovely picnic field. With very few events taking place at the moment, these Orchard Days are a great opportunity to spend time outside with the family while enjoying some The Plough fresh Kent fruit. Visitors will also be helping raise essential funds to save Inn, these unique orchards. For social distancing reasons, spaces Stalisfield are very limited, so you need to book Open in the form of the fast. 'New normal' please 26/27 September; 17/18 October make sure you reserve a 10am-12noon and 12-2pm table in advance though. Family Ticket £25; Adults £10; All tables are at 1 metre Children £4.50 plus inside and we have a Free for Brogdale Collections All Events marquee in the front garden to provide outside tables with shelter. passholders – Please call the office to Table service for drinks and food is in place which although means pre-book your entry 01795 536250 service maybe a little slower it is of course a lot safer! Pre-booking only on We are continuing to support the local community with our www.brogdalecollections.org contactless shop and can arrange take aways for collection if people

Note: are still shielding. In addition to the National Fruit Collections, Brogdale Farm is home to hectares of orchards Please let us know if we can do anything to support you. packed with heritage apple, pear, plum, quince Marianne, Richard & Nathan! and cherry trees. These provide the fruit to share with the public on event days which gives Please call 01795 890256 or email people the opportunity to learn about and eat a [email protected] wonderful range of heritage fruit. Keep up to date by following us on Facebook, Twitter or Due to changes in circumstances, management of these orchards is under threat and Brogdale Instagram Collections Charity is raising funds to protect this important local diverse horticultural https://theploughinnstalisfield.co.uk resource. Otterden and Stalisfield W.I. We have now decided to cancel all meetings and events until next year, and possibly until April when we can all renew our memberships. Although Stalisfield Village Hall Trustees have put everything in place to make the hall Covid-19 safe, it is still not possible for us to meet indoors within the Government guidelines.

Charing & District Local History Society Unique Tea Towel Incorporating a Hand-Painted Map of the Ashford Area Covering 77 Square Miles Fitness in Eastling Village Hall Peter Holman was an which we are now selling, to accomplished artist who lived help raise funds for the Bounce Classes and in Charing in the 1960s, & preservation & conservation of Pilates Classes one of his works is a map items of historical significance More details on: that he painted in 1965. The that we own. style is very individual, as it www.facebook.com/ In this instance, the funds will shows the countryside eastlingvillagehall be used to restore a painting around Ashford, with the lie of Horace Barwick, who lived of the land, hills, good in The Moat in Charing viewing points and other between 1830 - 1845. He was a places of interest and prolific artist, who sketched & EASTLING VILLAGE HALL historical information painted many buildings & To book ring Hayley on covering an area of 77 square scenes in the Charing area. on 01795 890968 miles. www.eastlingvillagehall.co.uk In 2015 Horace's Great- Villages that are included on A beautiful hall in a lovely village location for your Nephew gave CDLHS an oil the Tea Towel Map include: wedding, club, sports or meetings. painting of him, which is now The large hall has pretty grounds, car parking, meeting Ashford, Boughton Lees, with the Courtauld Institute of rooms and fully equipped facilities for professional or Braybourne, Brook, Challock, Art, for restoration. self-catering occasions. Charing, Charing Heath, Great Chart, Hothfield, The quality of the Tea Towel Kennington, Little Chart, is very good, and they make Mersham, Smeeth, Westwell excellent presents. & Wye. To order one of these unique CDLHS have been given Tea Towels, please contact permission by Peter's family Keith Oram chairman@ charinghistory.co.uk . They are Marcus Hammond to produce the Tea Towels Tel: 01795 473959 priced at just £8 + £2 p&p Mob: 07592 511612 Email: [email protected]

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LADY GARDENER GARDEN CLEARANCE available for pruning, planting, No job too small. weeding, mowing etc. Mowing, strimming. Trees topped/removed. Regular visits or one-off tidy up. Fences and gates erected. Minimum 2 hours For a free quote call Call Bev on 01795 890705 Nick Swatland 01795 886814 Mobile: 0775 283 0979 mobile 07713 766141 Eastling Neighbourhood Watch Village Warden 07794 010 394 or 01795 890848 Police 101 Emergency 999 The break-ins into sheds in the village has not as yet stopped. I am assured by the by the police that they are doing all they can but unfortunately there is no hard evidence, whilst we all know is who is responsible. Paws in the Park, both events will be going ahead this Seeing the prices that are being asked year and will be following the latest updates from the for dogs these days I would advise not Government relating to the running of shows. letting your animals out your sight They will look a bit different his year but this will not spoil when out for a walk as there are nasty the fun of dog shows, dash n splash, competitions and people around. have a go events. Take care when driving as the young Tickets will be available in advance only go to: pheasants think that they own the road and become kamikaze at this time of www.pawsinthepark.net the year. 19 - 20 September Kent County Showground, Detling Have good month 10 - 11 October South of Showground, Ardingly Take Care, Alan.

Joe McCarron www.faversham.foodbank.org.uk WIFI Services Faversham Foodbank September 2020 Slow WIFI? Poor Signal? Tank you, Eastling villagers, for continuing to support our local foodbank. As the I offer WIFI surveys for number of people made redundant increases day by day so do the demands on residential and business Foodbanks around the country. The major supermarkets locally are continuing to properties, including donate food items but Faversham Foodbank currently really needs household and personal items too. Donations may be left at the Carpenters Arms during pub recommendations for system opening hours. improvements if required Items required for September Multipurpose cleaning spray; washing up liquid; bleach; shampoo and Contact me for a quotation conditioners; small boxes of washing powder; can openers; snack bars; chocolate bars; Mobile: 07909806015 dog food. Email: [email protected] Jesus said, “I am the Gate”

“Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” (John 10:7–10)

Many people who live in an urban or suburban environment have only seen sheep in a petting zoo. But in Jesus’s day, shepherds and sheep were common sights, and John’s original readers would have been familiar with sheep herding. They would also have been aware of the many Old Testament references to God as the shepherd of Israel, including the well-known twenty-third psalm, which begins with the words, “The Lord is my shepherd.” So the imagery of this “I am” statement and the next (“I am the good shepherd”) would have been very familiar to Jesus’s audience.

He begins by describing a typical first-century sheep pen and the way it functioned for both shepherds and sheep:

Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his height of about three feet. This is the type of voice. He calls his own sheep by name and pen that Jesus’s readers would have seen in leads them out. When he has brought out all his first-century Israel. own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But At sundown sheep were led into this enclosure they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they to protect them from predators and thieves. will run away from him because they do Some sheep pens, including the one Jesus not recognise a stranger’s voice. (John 10:1–5) describes, were large enough to house more than one flock. For security, there was only one A few years ago, a friend of gate into the pen. A watchman, who was a He thereby mine invited me to join him hired hand, only allowed certain shepherds and claims to be and twenty-five others on a sheep to enter that gate. If anyone tried to tour of Israel. On one of our come into the pen at night by climbing over the the one and first stops, we visited a wall, it was clear that he was a thief and a only way into sheep pen. If I had heard the robber, not a legitimate shepherd. In smaller the pen .... words “sheep pen” prior to sheep pens, the shepherd himself would this trip, I would have sometimes lie down at the entrance to the pen, imagined an enclosure made becoming a human gate that protected the of either wood or metal. But in Israel the most sheep from all intruders. common material is stone, and therefore the enclosure we saw that day was made of large Surprisingly, Jesus does not begin this story by white rocks piled on top of each other to a describing himself as the “good shepherd” but rather as the “gate” into the sheep pen. He Imagine my surprise when I learned that Jesus thereby claims to be the one and only way into didn’t come to make me a religious fanatic but the pen—a theme he will repeat in some of his rather to give me a full and satisfying life. He other “I am” statements. Only those sheep and promised to give me everything I truly wanted, shepherds who come through Jesus can and that caught me off-guard. experience the benefits of his promise: “I have I’m not suggesting that Jesus doesn’t care come that they may have life, and have it to about how we live. His analogy of the gate, the the full” (v. 10). shepherd, and the sheep makes that clear. I first heard that promise the night I became a Jesus’s sheep are identified by two key Christian, when someone read to me from a characteristics: (1) They realize that a full life, booklet that told me, “God loves you and offers both now and eternally, can only be found in a wonderful plan for your life.” That was Jesus, and (2) his sheep know his voice and followed by the quote from John’s gospel, “‘I follow him. Following Jesus involves not only came that they might have life, and might have believing in him but following his teachings, it more abundantly’ [that it might be full and especially those related to loving God and meaningful] (John 10:10 KJV).” loving others. But these commands aren’t intended to enslave us but rather to liberate us I would never have thought by transforming us into the loving, relational of Jesus coming to give me He promised people God intended us to be. As we will see in abundant life. Like many who to give me the next section, the Good Shepherd truly cares had never read the first about his sheep. century accounts about him, everything I I imagined that he came to truly Reflect: make sure I kept a bunch of wanted.... Jesus makes a claim of exclusivity—he is the rules and stayed out of gate. How do you currently compare Jesus with trouble. Or, possibly, he came other religious beliefs? to make sure I went to church regularly, and that I spent most of the rest of my time praying Taken from Our Daily Bread®, © 2020 by Our and reading the Bible—all of which sounded Daily Bread Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. completely boring and the opposite of the life I Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. longed for!

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