The annual harvest thanksgiving services became an anticipated event. The church was decorated with “scarlet vine” and flowers, and congregation members would bring their garden produce. For many years Ron Smith’s enormous pumpkin, grown and inscribed specifically for the day, would take pride of place.

Proceeds were donated to needy groups and food parcels sent to missionaries.  In 1959, for example, seven food parcels were sent to missionaries and the fresh food sent to Weller Lodge.  In 1967 eleven parcels were sent to missionaries around the world.