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SUMMARY:Family Communion and Harvest Festival
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DESCRIPTION:Family Communion for Harvest: celebrant the Revd Tola Badejo.\
 n\nFirst reading: Deuteronomy 26.1–11\nGospel: John 6.25–35\n\nAt this
  service we shall collect donations for the Manna Centre\, a day centre in
  Southwark for homeless people. Please follow the link below for a list of
  their main requirements. \n\nThe image above is a detail of a very famous
  painting\, Vincent van Gogh's 'The Sower at Sunset'. Although he turned a
 way from the institutional church\, van Gogh was a profoundly religious ma
 n who spent two years as a lay pastor in a deprived mining area of Belgium
 \, and this experience is reflected in the way his later paintings depict 
 not only the dignity of manual labour but also its unrelenting physical de
 mands. 'The sower' isn't a realistic scene: the foreground shows seed bein
 g scattered on bare earth and the background a field of ripe corn\, thus r
 epresenting the entire cycle of seedtime and harvest. In a similar way\, t
 he painting reflects the relationship between human and superhuman agency:
  for grain to grow\, at least in quantities that will sustain us\, the sun
  has to  shine\, the rain has to fall\, and men and women have to work in 
 all weathers to make it happen.\n\nAs always\, we shall reflect on other p
 hysical and metaphorical harvests: the labour of all who make and deliver 
 the things we need\, and the harvest of the spirit\, in which we aspire to
  be both harvested and harvester.
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LOCATION:Kidbrooke\, St Nicholas
URL:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/671/service-and-events/events/96
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