September 2004 Page 20

Regular mid-week services:

Wednesdays: Holy Communion at 10.30 a.m.

Coffee is served afterwards

Evening Prayer at 6.00 p.m. (5.30 on Oct 6, not Oct 13)

Saturdays: Morning Prayer at 9.00 a.m. (not Oct 16 or 30)

Holy Communion: 11.00 a.m. on Oct 2

6.30 p.m. on Oct 9 & 23, but not on Oct 16 or 30

Evening Prayer at 6.00 p.m. on Oct 9 & 23

Harvest Festival: Festival Evensong on Friday October 1, service at 7 pm, with guest preacher Revd Roy Kilford, followed by the Harvest Supper, tickets £2 from Jean Corner on 420622. All welcome! And Harvest Communion on Sunday October 3, at 9.30 a.m., with the Vicar as preacher. All welcome then as well!

Stephen off-duty: Stephen will be unavailable October 11 to 16.

PCC: Meets on Monday October 18 at 7.30 p.m. – venue to be announced.

United service: There will be no service at Rudston on Sunday October 24; please join in with the united benefice service at Boynton, Holy Communion starting at 10.30.

Patronal Festival and Gift Day: This year we will be celebrating the Patronal Festival on All Saints’ Eve, Sunday October 31, with a service in church at 6.30 p.m., and refreshments in the Vicarage afterwards – all welcome! As usual, it will also be Gift Day – please give generously! And remember: no-one will call at the door for your envelope.

THE VICAR’S RAMBLINGS

At this time of year the way people approach Hallowe’en always annoys me. All year round we tell our children not to talk to strangers, and suddenly it’s fine to knock on anyone’s door and demand treats with menaces! And why this interest in witches and warlocks, things we’d normally class as evil? ‘Hallowe’en’ is a shortening of ‘All Hallows Eve’, and ‘Hallows’ is an old word for ‘Saints’. Instead of chasing pumpkins round the village, why not just join us in church?

STEPHEN