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VICTORIA BRADFIELD Manufacturers of traditional BEAUTY THERAPIST AND MAKE-UP ARTIST Log Houses & Garden Buildings Home & Garden Building Design & Maintenance, Home Improvements, Repairs & Renewals, Tree Removal & Log Work, General Contracts Mike Balls (Parham) 720138 or mobile 07748 683271 www.theloghouse.co.uk MARLESFORD ESTATE Facials • Massage • Make-up • Waxing Unfurnished residential properties in the Spray Tanning • Reflexology • Lash Extensions beautiful Marlesford Conservation Area Microdermabrasion • Manicures & Pedicures to let on Assured Shorthold Tenancies at rents from £600 per month. Also Workshop space on Parham Airfield. Suffolk’s Leading Mobile Beauty Therapist Grazing land to rent with D.I.Y. stabling. and Make-up Artist Enjoy high-end beauty treatments in the Estate Office, Marlesford Hall. comfort of your own home. Tel: 01728 746993 M: 07775 662725 www.victoriabradfield.co.uk From Revd Graham Hedger Harvest celebrations in our churches will be muted this year. With restrictions on singing hymns, whether indoors or outside the well-known cheerful hymns will be sung in our hearts as we celebrate the harvest home. Despite the vagaries of the British weather, we do still have a harvest to be thankful for. I hope that in many and different ways we will give thanks for all the hard work of farmers, and all those involved in food research, production and distribution. Our Zoom service on 4th October will be a special service to celebrate harvest. Why not join in? One of my favourite harvest hymns can be sung throughout the year. Its first line is ‘Great is thy faithfulness’ and the hymn celebrates that, come what may, we can experience the faithfulness and loving care and provision of God. Mindful of the Covid regulations which make the gifts of fresh produce difficult and mindful of the pressures that many foodbanks are operating under, this year we are asking for financial gifts that can also be passed on. There are two food banks operating in our area. If you are unable to attend a harvest service in one of our churches then you could give direct to a food bank. FIND (Families in Need): Donations by cheque should be made payable to ‘FIND (Families in Need) Ltd.’ with a covering note stating whether the donation is for the central fundraising account, foodbank or rough sleepers support. Please send cheques to the FIND office: FIND (Families In Need), PO BOX 1029 Ipswich, IP1 9XJ or go to their website to make a donation direct; https://www.findipswich.org.uk/support-us In East Suffolk, LCC Foodbank; Sort code 40-52-40; Acc no 00031694 Our regular pattern of services continues to be a service at 9.30 on Zoom. If you would like to join, please contact Bill Clarke [email protected] . At 11.00 each Sunday we also have a service of Holy Communion somewhere in the benefice. In addition, we hold occasional services such as morning or evening prayer in churches following the traditional Book of Common Prayer (BCP), and a mid-week service of Holy Communion twice a month in Hacheston on a Wednesday, again using the Book of Common Prayer. Our Taizé service on YouTube continues each month and we are very grateful to Wendy and Alister Gourlay for all their working in producing this. Towards the end of October, in the church’s year we enter into the season of remembering, All Hallows or All Saints (November 1st) being the day when we remember those who have served God in the past and also the triumph of Jesus over death. We have churches within the benefice dedicated to ‘All Saints’. The following day is All Souls, when we have traditionally remembered all who have died. Remembrance Sunday in November completes the cycle of events. In the usual course of events we aim to hold services on all these days. This year the act of remembering loved ones will be even more poignant, as many families have been unable to hold funeral and thanksgiving services involving all their friends and family due to Covid 19 restrictions. We are still working on how we might use All Souls Day within the benefice to help people continue on their journey of grief and recovery. There will be more in the November magazine. 1 CHURCH NEWS BISHOP MIKE On 1st November we are very pleased that Bishop Mike will be preaching at the Holy Communion Service in St. Andrew’s, Marlesford. This will be at 11.00am. In order to follow all the rules on social distancing we ask that anyone who wishes to come contacts any of the following to reserve a place. Revd. Graham Hedger – [email protected] 01473 737280 Nan Waterfall – [email protected], 01728 747038 Carol Cooke – [email protected] 01728 747625 Requests will be dealt with on a “first come, first served” basis and please indicate if there is more than one person in your group. Carol Cooke ***** Daily Services Details can be found on www.hachestonchurch.onesuffolk.net To find them go to the Home page, click on link to the end of the page. This Service of Prayer for the Morning can be used privately or you could join in with others at 9.30 am and at 4pm when some will be joining together to read Short service for later in the day. ***** Private Prayer. Brandeston; Tuesday; 10am - 4pm Kettleburgh; daily; 8am - 6pm Marlesford; Sunday 11am - 6pm. Wednesday 8.30am - 6pm. (But not on 30th September or 3rd October) Easton; Tuesday and Saturday. 10.00am – 4.00pm Hacheston: Wednesdays. 10.00am - 4.00pm Campsea Ashe: Thursday 10.30 -1pm. Sunday 1.30 – 5pm. 2 CHURCH NEWS continued Service schedule for October 4 9.30 Zoom Morning Service (Harvest) 11.00 Holy Communion Campsea Ashe 11 9.30 Zoom Morning Service 11.00 Holy Communion Parham 3.30 Evening Service for Harvest Kettleburgh 14 10.00 Holy Communion (BCP) Harvest theme Hacheston 18 9.30 Zoom Morning Service 11.00 Holy Communion Easton 11.00 Morning service for Harvest Parham 4.00 Taizé YouTube ** 25 9.30 Zoom Morning Service 11.00 Holy Communion Hacheston 28 10.00 Holy Communion (BCP) Hacheston ** For details go to Cretingham church – www.mid-loes.com/cretingham 3 COMMUNITY NEWS FREE, FOR SALE or WANTED If you have any items for sale or wanted, please send details to: [email protected] THE FOLLOWING ARE STILL AVAILABLE (if you’re quick!) Large glass tank for pet (terrarium for lizard / snake) Excellent condition as new. S l i d i n g d o o r s . 1 0 0 c m x 5 0 c m x 5 0 c m P l u s v a r i o u s a c c e s s o r i e s C a n d e l i v e r l o c a l l y £150 07585 353066 A quantity of steel scaffolding, 2”, about 12 poles up to 15ft and container of joints, bases, angles etc. FREE but donation to Parham Church welcome 01728 723569 could you foster? we urgently need carers in Suffolk Visit us at www.nexusfostering.co.uk Call us on 01603 951 405 Board version 2.indd 1 25/03/2020 08:49:46 4 COMMUNITY NEWS As Parliament returned earlier this month, we continue to live in uncertain times and this summer has certainly been very different. One of the things which I have missed the most is being out and about and meeting so many members of the local community at the annual village fetes and community events. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a great many of our businesses have been impacted – across all sectors. With the hospitality industry being greatly impacted, I’ve been especially impressed to see so many examples of businesses adapting and innovating to offer new services supporting our rural communities. For example, during the forced closures of lockdown, a number of pubs across Central Suffolk and North Ipswich have adapted to offer pop-up grocery stores or take away dining. These pop-up shops and take away dining outlets proved incredibly popular with local residents, meaning that they didn’t have to venture too far from home to shop locally and source top quality, local ingredients. Now that lockdown has eased, many of those businesses who had adapted are continuing to offer the add-on services and customers are continuing to support them, valuing the important contribution they make to the local community. As we’ve come out of lockdown, businesses and consumers have readjusted and early signs of economic recovery are encouraging. Our towns and villages are at last seeing increased footfall and sales are slowly beginning to recover. Although many consumers are still being cautious, our businesses have gone to great lengths to ensure they are COVID-19 secure, giving consumers confidence that they can shop safely.