I’d like to thank everyone who has taken the time
and trouble over the past few days, to give me feedback on the Scarecrow Trail.
This has been uniformly positive, with plenty of good ideas for how to make
things better next time.
Deo
volente, there will be a next time, but this will be in June 2015, with the
theme, ‘Book, Play or Film’. Meanwhile, members of the church family at All
Saints will be putting their heads together over the coming weeks, to think of
something completely different to engage and share with our local community
next summer.
Our
next big event is set to be the ‘All Saints’ Christmas Cracker’, an
old-fashioned craft and gift fair up at All Saints’ Church, Loughton MK, in early
December 2013. Nearer the time, everyone will be invited to come along to celebrate the real
meaning of Christmas, with Carols and Storytelling, Santa’s Grotto, a
traditional Bran Tub and an Old Fashioned Sweet Stall, Children’s Crafts and
Games, and a Contemplation and Prayer Space.
There
will also be plenty of Christmas arts and crafts on sale to stock up on those extra-special Christmas presents and to raise money for the church, including Embroideries
and Textiles, Christmas Decorations, Greetings Cards and other seasonal gifts,
as well as a Grand Raffle and ‘Jambola’. Novelty stalls last year included a
‘Pass on A Present’ stall selling new and pre-loved gifts suitable as Christmas
Presents, Vintage Jewellery, Scarves and Handbags, Christmas Plants and
Stocking Fillers.
For
your delectation and delight, there will be a choice of afternoon tea and cakes
or mulled wine and mince pies, a Home Made Cakes and Produce stall, and a
Fairtrade Stall selling ethically sourced products from all over the world.
I
will conclude this final blog of the 2013 All Saints’ Loughton MK Scarecrow Trail
by saying a really big ‘Thank You’ to everyone who has played a part in making the 2013 Scarecrow Trail such a great success, whether by building a 'crow' or by following the trail, or by helping out at events associated with it, or even by following this blog over the
past few months. Hopefully, I’ll be back in 2015 with news about our next
Scarecrow Trail.