All Saints Church Kesgrave

31/08/2026

If you’re a parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent, teacher, sunday school leader, youth leader or helper or anyone(!) you might like this popular children’s backpack/school bag prayer:

“We thank you for your goodness to all your children, Lord. Be with these children throughout this new school year. May your blessing be upon these schoolbags, which the children will carry to and from school each day.

Watch over the children in their coming and their going; keep them safe always; help them to be kind; bless their learning and their play. Enfold them at all times in your abundant love. Through Christ our Lord. AMEN”

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30/08/2026

What a joyous service of Holy Communion this morning!
It was made even more special by the privilege of welcoming Baby Stanley, who was baptised by Revd Gary Jones.
Stanley was absolutely ADORABLE
❤️❤️🙏⛪

29/08/2026

A statement on the Big Church Festival.

Join me in praying for the friends, family and loved ones of those affected.

28/08/2026

28/08/2026

Tomorrow is the start of our Kesgrave Scarecrow Trail!!! 🎉🌻

Thank you so much to everyone who has taken part — whether by making a scarecrow, growing sunflowers for our Sunflower Competition, making kind donations towards the raffle, tombola and book raffle, or volunteering to help on the day of the Scarecrow Café on 12th September.

A huge thank you to you all! We simply couldn’t have done it without your help! ❤️

Just a little reminder that we have two weeks to enjoy the trail, from 29th August to 12th September, and we really hope everyone will enjoy walking around Kesgrave and seeing all the wonderful scarecrows along the trail.

Here is the link to the Kesgrave Scarecrow Trail map, which has 20 entries so far. We are hoping we might have a few more last-minute entries too! The same link will show any updates, so if you are going to print the map, it would be helpful to make sure you print the latest version:
Kesgrave Scarecrow Trail Map
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=13MQyRUXCQW68-8eRiLFBgjdzaHq58lE&ll=52.0625096226409%2C1.2419942468985479&z=14

🌻 Scarecrow Café – Saturday 12th September

On Saturday 12th September, at All Saints Kesgrave, from 10am–2pm, we will have our Scarecrow Café, and everyone is welcome!
There will be lots of yummy cakes, children’s activities, a teddy zip wire (we are asking children to bring their brave teddies along to have a go! 🧸), a pet blessing, tombola and some lovely stalls.

Our Scarecrow Trail and Sunflower Competition winners will also be announced.

We would absolutely love to see you there!

Many thanks again to everyone who has taken part in this community event. It makes such a huge difference when we have so many lovely people coming together to bring smiles to Kesgrave. ❤️

As a church, we are so grateful for all your support. We remember how cold last winter was without our heating system, and we know how important fundraising events like this are in helping us raise the money needed to replace it.

So many of you have already supported us towards this cause, and we are extremely grateful. However, replacing the heating system is a very large-scale project, and we still need to raise a considerable amount.

We therefore hope that the Kesgrave Scarecrow Festival and Scarecrow Café on 12th September will be a huge success — both as a brilliant event for our community and as an important fundraiser to help our church with this project.

So please do come along, bring your family and friends, enjoy the trail, have some cake, join in the activities and help us make it a really special day!

We would love to see you there! 🌻🧸☕❤️

And if you would like to support our church and help us towards replacing our heating system, you can make a donation through the Parish Giving Scheme here:
Donate to All Saints Kesgrave
https://www.parishgiving.org.uk/donors/find-your-parish/kesgrave-all-saints-ipswich

Every donation, however big or small, is very much appreciated. Thank you so much for your kindness and support! ❤️

With many thanks and love,
All Saints Church Kesgrave

27/08/2026

If you have not signed up. tomorrow is the last day!!! We have around 20 scarecrows on the map already, would LOVE to have more 🧑‍🌾🌼🌾

20/08/2026

🌻 KESGRAVE SCARECROW FESTIVAL – COMING SOON! 🌻

Our Kesgrave Scarecrow Festival is just around the corner, running from Saturday 29th August to Saturday 12th September 2026 – and it’s not too late to get involved!

We would love to see even more wonderful and imaginative scarecrows appearing around Kesgrave. Whether you’re entering on your own, with family, friends, neighbours, a school, community group or workplace, why not have a go? There are no limits to your creativity! 🤩

📍 Scarecrow Trail: 29th August – 12th September

All scarecrows will be included on our trail map. If you would like to create a scarecrow, please get in touch with us with the name of your scarecrow and its location/address, and we’ll make sure it is added to the map.

📧 Contact: [email protected]

☕ Scarecrow Café – Saturday 12th September
Join us at All Saints Church, Main Road, Kesgrave, IP5 1AA, from 10am–2pm for a fun-filled morning!

🧸 Teddy Zip Wire
🐾 Pet Blessing
🎨 Children’s activities
😊 Face painting
☕ Refreshments and homemade cakes
🎟️ Tombola
🛍️ Stalls
🏆 Presentation of our scarecrow and sunflower competition prizes

🌻 Sunflower Growing Competition
Don’t forget that we also have our sunflower competition, with categories for:

🌻 Tallest Sunflower
🌻 Largest Sunflower Head
🌻 Best Multi-Headed Sunflower
🌻 Young Gardener Award

🎁 Donations wanted, please!
We are also kindly asking for donations of:

🎟️ Tombola/raffle prizes
🌻 Prizes for the Sunflower Competition
📚 Books for our book stall

There will be a clearly labelled donation box in the church, underneath the notices/leaflets table, where donations can be left.

Thank you so much for supporting our Scarecrow Festival. Last year was a great success thanks to all the amazing scarecrows and the wonderful support from our community – and we’re looking forward to making this year even more fun!

It really isn’t too late – get creative, make a scarecrow and join the trail! 🎃🌻

We look forward to seeing you there!

The Scarey Crow Crew
All Saints Church, Kesgrave