Harvest Celebrations

Gratitude’s a deep-seated emotion. Many people crush this tendency, or fail to nurture and use it. Yet everyone’s natural instinct is to be thankful. In Daniel Defoe’s famous story, Robinson Crusoe rescues an islander who’s fleeing for his life from his fellow tribesmen. From then on the tribesman served Crusoe without pay, simply out of gratitude to the man who saved his life.

Harvest Festival’s a time to remember how much we depend on God’s mercy, not only for the harvest of the fields, but for all other blessings which we enjoy in our life, and indeed for life itself. As with Crusoe’s friend, the measure of our gratitude is our willingness to serve God ungrudgingly.

On Sunday, 26th September we will gather in our Church to celebrate God’s creative power and thank him for all that delights us. Like last year we will have a ‘traditional style’ of service and I ask that you bring gifts of fruit, vegetables and dried goods on the Sunday morning when they will be placed at the front of the church during the first hymn.

The dried goods we receive will go to PAFRAS (Positive Action For
Refugees & Asylum Seekers) in Leeds, and the fruit, vegetables and flowers will be given to Wheatfields Hospice and Grove Court Care Home.

Like you, I am looking forward to praising God that day and thanking him for his bountiful care.

Every Blessing,

Bill