Today is our Harvest Festival, and our preacher is our Minister, Rev Jane Craske. The service will include Communion. There will be an opportunity to bring up gifts early on in the service.
Next Sunday (28th September) will be a joint service with Kerith Church at 10.30.
This week:
Tue: The Ark Fri: Guides
Wed: Nellie’s in the hall 2-4 Sat: Party in the church 12.30-3.30
Wed: Line Dancing (church) 5.45-6.45
Dates for your Diary
Fri/Sat 26th/27th September: Pastor Sam & Healing Streams at the Riverside Centre (see below)
Thursday 2nd October: Church Council 7.30
Saturday 4th October: Guides Macmillan Coffee Morning in the hall 10-12.30
Friday 31st October: Light Party arranged by Kerith
Saturday 8th November: Community Association Fun Day
What can you get from HARVEST?
The answers to all these can be found in the letters of HARVEST.
You may know straight away, or you may need to use your Bible (NIV). The questions are in Bible order. Remember, you can use only the letters of HARVEST.
| 1. Created by God, along with the heavens. (Genesis 1:1) | |
| 2. Where God planted a garden. (Genesis 2:8) | |
| 3. How they had to eat the Passover: in —-. (Exodus 12:11) | |
| 4. The Israelites went through it. (Exodus 14:22) | |
| 5. Tribe given 22 towns and villages. (Joshua 19:24,30) | |
| 6. What they did as they wept by the rivers of Babylon. (Psalm 137:1) | |
| 7. Size of the sum of God’s thoughts. (Psalm 139:17) | |
| 8. What you must do to evil if you fear the Lord. (Proverbs 8:13) | |
| 9. God promises to give a new one. (Ezekiel 36:26) | |
| 10. What the dry bones must do with the word of the Lord. (Ezekiel 37:4) | |
| 11. What God will do because he is mighty. (Zephaniah 3:17) | |
| 12. What Jesus will give to the weary. (Matthew 11:28) | |
| 13. One of the things we do to proclaim the Lord’s death. (1 Corinthians 11:26) | |
| 14. What you need to hear what the Spirit says. (Revelation 2:7) | |
| 15. God will wipe every one away. (Revelation 21:4) |
Healing Streams: Pastor Sam Adetona is back on the Island this week at the Riverside Centre – Friday 26th 6.30-9.30 pm, Saturday 27th 10.00-4.00. All are welcome.
Harvest Stressbuster: Colour these in!
Hymn/Song Spot
“We plough the fields…” – quintessentially English harvest hymn? Wrong! The words actually go: “Wir pflűgen und wir streuen den Samen auf das Land.” It was written in the 1780s by the German poet Matthias Claudius (whose other poetry I once had to study), originally in 17 4-line stanzas. It appeared in an English translation in the 1860s.
The tune is still known as “Wir pflűgen”, and was written by Johann Schulz, who had spells as chief musician in the courts of Prussia and Copenhagen. So, when we sing the hymn, a quiet “Danke” to Matthias and Johann.
(Maybe we will do another slot some time on “foreign” hymns, such as “Thine be the glory” and “All my hope on God is founded.”)
In contrast, the final hymn in our service this Sunday was written by an English Methodist minister, Rev Fred Pratt Green. The final lines, “Most of all, that love has found us, / Thanks be to God”, stop me in my tracks every time. Martin
What can you get from HARVEST? – Answers
| 1. Earth | 4. Sea | 7. Vast | 10. Hear | 13. Eat |
| 2. East | 5. Asher | 8. Hate | 11. Save | 14. Ear |
| 3. Haste | 6. Sat | 9. Heart | 12. Rest | 15. Tear |