Harvest
Isn’t it wonderful when your church has the habit of sharing?
There’s someone with a lemon tree who will leave a box
for folk to take some or there may be figs or grapes or almonds.
Or someone may have baked because they love doing that or bring a feast of their national dish.
Real flowers at church, simnel cake and posies; they all speak of God’s bounty and our gratitude.
The origin of all these Anglican ways is Celtic spirituality brought into
England’s green and pleasant land from Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
This is a wonderful inheritance, grounding us, so to speak,
in a theology of Creation and connections with the earth, its richness and its beauty.
You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with richness.
Psalm 65:11
Not all folk in the Diocese of North Eastern Caribbean and Aruba (NECA) are able to share in God’s bounty.
Mothers’ Union is adopting Church and Community Mobilisation to help communities
break free from dependency and self-solve issues such as poverty – either financial or educational.
They also run soup kitchens and run nutrition programmes