Harvest Thanksgiving - Notices
- Benwell and Scotswood Team
- Oct 2, 2021
- 4 min read
3/10/21
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Stanley Spencer, Apple Gatherers, 1912
Oil on canvas, Tate, London
Dates for your diary
Sunday 3rd October
Harvest Festival
10.30am St James
Wednesday 6th October
PCC meeting
7.30pm on Zoom
Sunday 10th October
Sunday service moves to Venerable Bede
News
Harvest thanksgiving this Sunday!
During the Sunday service we will give thanks and pray for God's creation, for food and all that sustains us.
We will be taking donations for the Community Pantry at Cornerstone. Please bring some items from their list below. If you cannot attend the service would like to make a cash donation then please contact Cornerstone here >
Shopping List:
We would love:
Long life milk
Tinned tomatoes
Tea bags
Coffee
Corned beef
Pek chopped pork
Pasta sauce
Tinned fruit
Tinned puddings
Cleaning products
Laundry products
Toiletries
Cereal
We would like:
Long life juice
Marrowfat peas
Sugar
Tinned potatoes
Meatballs in gravy
Beans and sausage
Chicken and veg stock cubes
Biscuits
Tuna
Lentils
Kids cereal
Rice
Squash
Hygiene products
We can always use:
Tins of soup
Tins of veg
Pasta
Sunday service at Venerable Bede from next week!
Location: West Road, NE4 8AP
Don't forget that from next Sunday we move to the Venerable Bede for Sunday team services.
As the heating system needs replacing at St James we will continue being semi-nomadic and hold team services at the Venerable Bede during the colder months.
Pendower Good Neighbour Project - AGM & Harvest celebration
Saturday 16th Oct, 1-3pm
Beginning with the Annual General Meeting at 1pm (booking is essential for that bit!) our friends at Pendower will continue with their Harvest celebration at 1.30pm with delicious free food in the garden, crafts, and a raffle!
12-14 Sunnybank Avenue, NE15 6SD
Covid-19 update
No doubt you will have heard that covid restrictions are being relaxed. As case rates are still high in our area you won't see too much change just yet! But we do have plans to reintroduce activities.
Most importantly - please get your vaccine if you haven't yet! And stay at home if you develop covid symptoms. Find vaccine times and locations here >
Cornerstone Community Cafe open!
Wednesdays & Thursdays 10am - 2pm
62 Armstrong Road, NE4 7TU
Delicious affordable meals
Outdoor Seating
Dog Friendly
Kids Corner
Computer and Internet Access
Computer help
Food pantry and emergency foodbank
and a great pre-loved shop!
Worship texts for Harvest
Reading
Joel 2.21-27
Do not fear, O soil; be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things! Do not fear, you animals of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and vine give their full yield. O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God; for he has given the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before. The threshing-floors shall be full of grain, the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent against you. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame. You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I, the Lord, am your God and there is no other. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Gospel
Matthew 6.25-33
Alleluia, alleluia.
Lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are ripe for harvesting.
Gather the fruit for eternal life.
Alleluia!
Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
Glory to you O Lord.
‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will we wear?” For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you O Christ.
Commitment to care for creation:
As the whole of creation looks with eager longing for the redemption of humankind, let us pledge ourselves anew to serve our Creator God, the Father who is the maker of all things, the Son through whom all things are made, and the Holy Spirit, the giver of life, who renews the face of the earth.
Lord of life and giver of hope,
we pledge ourselves to care for creation,
to reduce our waste,
to live sustainably,
and to value the rich diversity of life.
May your wisdom guide us,
that life in all its forms may flourish,
and may be faithful in voicing creation’s praise.
Intercessions
Prayers for others:
Moira Taylor
Mehri Karami
Edith Hutchinson
Regine Hemminger
Grace Thomson
Peter Wilson
John Nicholson
Liz Holliman
Joan Finley
James, Christina, and baby Xavier
Anastasia Miklewright
Ali Zareie and his family
The Riches Family
Jill Sorley
Joyce Phillips
George Snowden
Claire Mozaffari
Herbert Agbeko
Edward Fraser
All those who are struggling at home or in hospital with Covid-19
Rest In Peace:
Eric Harling
Nosa Samuel
Peter Schofield
Trevor Fitzpatrick
All who lost their lives from Covid 19
Other intentions:
COP26 and the protection and restoration of our planet