Sunday, 15 September 2024
Harvest Home
Today is Harvest Thanksgiving at church. Here in Norfolk, we have watched the combines out in the fields, and are perhaps more aware of the seasons than some city dwellers. We will be thanking God for his goodness, and all his love. After the service we are having a special lunch. And we are collecting tins, packets and toiletries for the local foodbank, and monetary donations for work in poverty stricken parts of Bangladesh, where floods have destroyed crops, and life is very difficult.
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Glad the churches collect dried and tinned goods for the local food bank-our nearest church has a list of items the food bank needs and you can hand in your contributions even if you don’t attend. It’s a lovely autumn morning today with the promise of warmer days ahead. Catriona
ReplyDeleteSo helpful when there is a list of ideas, it prevents dozens of cans of beans!
DeleteI hope that it's a lovely service and that lots of lovely donations are brought in for the foodbank, and for Bangladesh. It's awful to see how things are there isn't it. It puts our moaning about too much rain into perspective.
ReplyDeleteLots of donations, even though we are a relatively small fellowship
DeleteI pray for the day when food banks close because they are not needed any more.
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DeletePraying for everyone to live without the fear of where the next meal is coming from.
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DeleteI always loved the harvest festival at school, especially singing We Plough the Fields and Scatter.
ReplyDeleteWe sang it this morning!
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DeleteI love that hymn, which I remember from my childhood. "All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above" just as we read in James 1 v 17 - "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change."
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DeleteNot sure if I hit publish after I commented earlier! If this is a duplicate, please delete it.
ReplyDeleteWe will celebrate our Thanksgiving in November.
It is very kind of you and your church members to collect donations not only for your local food bank, but, also, for those affected by floods in Bangladesh,
No, not a duplicate (comments are proving very difficult lately aren't they?) Your Thanksgiving is a national event, here people/churches/schools mark harvest thanksgiving on any date which suits , usually September
DeleteI love the hymn We plough the Fields. I really like the version we were sent once with a Tearfund harvest pack- I use it at school! Kx
ReplyDeleteI think I know the one you mean, more contemporary words in it (we plough the fields with tractors .)
DeleteWe will be doing a similar thing at our church on the 29th. Praying that all went well yesterday and
ReplyDeletethere was much generosity and grateful hearts from those of us that have so much.
Over 100kg of food delivered to the Foodbank
DeleteThe collection trolley at an M&S in Edinburgh that I visited on Saturday was crammed full for their local foodbank. The one at Aldi yesterday in my local area was very sparse. My youngest drove the combine at his work this year again. It's a mighty piece of equipment!Lots of early mornings and late nights.
ReplyDeleteCombine harvesters are amazing pieces of machinery, it takes skill to operate them.
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