Harvest Festival

I've just finished the annual marathon which is our Harvest Festival service.

It's such a great chance to do something lively and exciting with families but at the same time we have to negotiate all the logistics of a packed church, people bringing all their old tins of soup and getting across some kind of meaningful message, not to mention the desires of some to keep it all quiet, ordered and boring!

Last week I went with our old friend John Sentamu, to the morning service to start the Labour Party conference and then on to the Trade Justice rally on the beach and was really inspired to bring home the message of trade justice to our congregation in safe respectable Hove. Our theme was Jesus - the bread of life - so appropriate for this when you think about how unevenly 'bread' is spread around our world.

"Jesus said - I am the bread of life, everyone who comes to me will never be hungry, and everyone who believes in me will never be thirsty"

We pray that this might be true for the whole world and I hope that the 90 people who voted for trade justice using the TJM voting cards will feel the same.

I'll try and find a way to post some of the powerpoint files I used in the service.