Fred helps children sow the seeds
Carrots and fruit decorate the table
Flowers in the Church
Farmer John ready to sow the seed
Seeds that make a picture
Fruit and flowers at Messy Church
 Art and crafts of harvest by the children
Story of seed to table .
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| | | Harvest Thanksgiving 7 October 2012
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Report and photos Jim Paterson
All
kinds of produce from the fields and beyond decorated St. Mungo’s
for the Harvest Thanksgiving service on Sunday 7th October. Members of
the congregation brought their bags full of gifts to add to those who
had brought items on the Saturday.
Fred Harrison led the
service of thanksgiving with the theme “All we do is planting and
reaping” the six laws of the Harvest. The children were
actively involved in planting seeds in a container, but the message we
reap in a different season than we sow was vividly displayed when Fred
upturned the plant pot and a crop of beans fell on to the floor. Had
the seeds grown in only minutes? Of course not, it was only a trick to
make the point.
While the children continued their Harvest
activities at Sunday School Fred continued his sermon, possibly one of
the best he has delivered to us, relating the six Harvest laws to the
actions we take to spread the word of God in our daily lives, namely
“we reap much that we did not sow”, “we reap the same
kind that we sow”, “we reap in a different season than we
sow”, we reap more than we sow”, “we reap in
proportion to what we sow”, and most importantly “we
can’t do a thing about last years harvest”.
In
the afternoon the “Harvest” theme continued at Messy Church
in the hall, where some 40 children and their parents become involved
in creating a variety of crafts and pictures with the harvest theme and
God’s work in providing for us as His people.
A story
time to the gathered children followed the journey of the seed from
planting, growing to harvest, grinding the corn into flour, making the
bread, which the baker sells to feed the people. In this story the
bread ended up as a slice of toast for breakfast, yummy!
Graham
McDonald thanked God for the food he had given us by providing a
successful harvest, before a meal of hot soup and bread was
shared with the families, followed by pudding and custard as a special
treat for the children.
Messy Church is a great way to bring
children and parents, who may not be regular church attenders, together
to hear and experience the word of God. Messy Church will meet again on
Sunday 4th November between 4.00 and 6.00pm in St. Mungo’s church
hall. See you there.
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