BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//achurchnearyou.com//eventfeed//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Harvest Festival Eucharist\, Saturday 11th October 11.30am 🍎
 🍌🍏🍉🍇🥑🍒🍋🫐
DTSTART:20251011T103000Z
DTEND:20251011T113000Z
DTSTAMP:20260411T012945Z
UID:9777232025-10-11 10:30:00+00:00achurchnearyou
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:At this time of year we celebrate Harvest Festival. We give th
 anks to God for the blessings of food\, comfort and joy. \n\nWe live in a 
 country\, and a world\, with high and increasing rates of agricultural pro
 ductivity and food yields. And yet global hunger is again on the rise\, wi
 th one in nine of our fellow human beings undernourished. \n\nAnd it is no
 t only food. For all our science\, our social care\, and our understanding
  of psychology\, there are more than 300 million people around the world a
 ffected by depression\, and close to 800\,000 people die each year at thei
 r own hand. \n\nGod has provided so much opportunity\, but we struggle to 
 share it equitably with others. And so we fail to live the dream of our pl
 enteous harvest.\n\n“We eat while others are hungry\, we laugh while oth
 ers are sad. For what we have we are thankful. Grant us to remember what o
 thers have not\, and\, where we can\, to restore it”. (Morris West\, Har
 lequin)\n\nSo\, we are doing it a little differently this year. Instead of
  bringing food gifts to place before the altar\, we will give the value of
  our shopping basket in a cash collection for the Christian AId Middle Eas
 t Humanitarian Appeal (see here: https://www.christianaid.org.uk/appeals/e
 mergencies/dec-middle-east-humanitarian-appeal). And\, in front of the alt
 ar we will display branches of olives\, walnuts\, almonds\, grapes of what
 ever people can bring. 🫒🌰🍇\n\nClick the link below to see Look at
  the World\, a Harvest Anthem by John Rutter. We will be singing this as a
  hymn!
GEO:-4.298266529747012;37.12525560245366
LOCATION:Salinas Anglican Congregation
URL:https://youtu.be/T4k8oVf9v78?si=--6s6_11pbh4n8if
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR