It is that time of year again, back to school, back to work and back to Church. Sunday 28 September is "Back to Church" day. This actually coincides with our Harvest Festival service and also the Patronal festival to St Michael, which will both be included in the Sunday service at 9.30am. However if you feel that you might like to try going to church again after a while away, then St Michael's Eggington, or indeed any of our benefice churches will be very pleased to see you, particularly on that Sunday. You may like to bring a bag of apples or plums or potatoes from the garden to that service; all produce offered during the harvest service is sold outside afterwards, and funds donated to the Bishops Harvest for the Hungry appeal.

The Beds and Herts Historic Churches Trust annual Bike 'n Hike will take place on Saturday 13 September. We have at least three volunteers to ride around some of the many churches in the district taking part in this event, but we may also need volunteers to help man the church and to offer a drink to any hot cyclists on the day. If you are asked to sponsor someone on this event, please do give generously, as we are hoping to benefit from the Trust’s funds for our own church building. The Trust cannot continue to give much needed funding without your generous support.

You may have seen that we now have our own Eggington notice sheet in church, which brings the items for our village and parishioners to mind, rather than All Saints’ related items. This is simply to personalise the service more, and therefore if you require prayers for a member of your family or have any notices to be included, then please let either Rev Julia or John Westbury know, by Thursday each week, in order that it can be included for that week’s notice sheet. In order to further announce the presence of St Michael’s in Eggington it has been decided that a new notice board will be purchased. This will show service times, the contact details for the vicar and any ad hoc notices of church events. This is being funded from a donation by SMILE, so many thanks to them

Looking ahead, in October there is to be another Wine Tasting evening organised by SMILE, further details will follow, and in November we have the Quiz evening, so you need to start brushing up the brains and gathering friends together in order to vie for the Champion’s spot. Good luck! AS