Harvest Thanksgiving

10.30 am Sunday 25 September 2011

(same Sunday as the Big Welcome')

Note - this is a past event

Harvest seems remote to modern life in a town or city. Our food comes already prepared and packed from a large supermarket. Fruit and veg all so uniform in shape and size, you wonder if it can be real. All nicely presented, with looks taking precedence over genuine quality. And we take it all for granted, without stopping to think about where it comes from.

Only following bad weather, or some other farming problem, which results in shortages causing price increases, do we remember where our food comes. Or realise that some things are outside our control.

While the celebrations in a town or city will never match those in a rural village, this is still a good opportunity to gives thanks to God for all that he provides.

updated 26 September 2011