Harvest Celebration Service, 1 Oct, 2023

WELCOME to our harvest worship service where we give thanks to God for his faithfulness and we celebrate the harvest. As it is Harvest, I thought it might be nice to film some of the service to get a sense of the atmosphere on site...
Given that, I'm intentionally going to be slightly later with putting the online service up, as I'll add the filming and pics of the decorations in the building into the mix to upload. I'm hoping to have this ready and uploaded by 6pm-ish Sunday evening - possibly before. So, bear with me and thanks for your patience. I'll edit this page to include the worship link when that's available.

****update - THE WORSHIP LINK IS HERE****
and the service should be available by 5pm Sunday

A separate harvest reel is in process and will be added to the Harvest playlist
so do check back on our YouTube channel for that!

By the by, the church was looking fab by the time I left there this afternoon - all the 'harvest elves' had been busy!

NOTICES...
Thank you - harvest time is very much about saying thank you... so a big thank you to everyone who helped in some way to organise the harvest service and breakfast:
to the breakfast team, the flower and decorating team, to those who've already brought items for the display (which will then be given to the food bank) - and to those who will be bringing or donating items...
a special thank you to our 5 primary schools for their lovely banners which, given time off due to the school strike, has been an amazing achievement.

Harvest Charity for 2023: Macmillan Cancer Support - Harvest is both about giving thanks and, sharing what we have, so to honour that, this year we're supporting the work of Macmillan Cancer Support - this, in recognition that our harvest service so often falls around the same time as the Macmillan coffee mornings. If you'd like to make a wee donation, you can do so by clicking HERE

Presbytery plan update - a quick mention about the meeting on Tuesday this last week of presbytery to discuss the presbytery plan.
Basically, presbytery made the decision to delay agreeing to the plan until there was more detail given of the various proposed changes. And, personally, I think it was a wise decision. Anyway, we shall see what happens, and hopefully, down the track, will perhaps end up with a way forward that is a little more rural community-friendly.

As you go through this coming week, may it be a time of thankfulness and celebration, as you remember the Lord of the Harvest.
God bless

Nikki