Our Village Celebrates and Raises Money for good Causes
Although Mayfield church has had Harvest Festival services each year there’s not been a Harvest Supper in the village since 2019, pre Covid and therefore this year 2022, it was a very welcome village event to follow on from the harvest festival service on September 25th.
Church windows were decorated with a mixture of plants. Flowers. foliage and produce for the harvest service and a wide range of goods. produce and food were brought to the church the day itself.
Our Harvest service is a special service in the calendar year especially for a rural church and there’s a real joy in a congregation singing ‘We plough the fields and scatter’ at a time when around us in the fields of Mayfield the harvest had been gathered in.
And the next day, over 60 villagers came to the Memorial Hall to celebrate with a Harvest Supper, complete with a two course meal, a glass of wine, a hotly fought over silent auction for the produce and goods donated and then entertainment with folk songs and poems from villager Ian McFarlane and friends from Ashbourne.
In all, a collection at church at the harvest festival and the silent auction and raffle at the harvest supper raised a magnificent £255 which this year went to the Pakistan Flood Appeal.
Plus on top of that produce and goods donated to the harvest also went to the Ashbourne Food Bank, ensuring that people both at home and abroad received much needed help from Mayfield parishioners.