Harvest Festival

Celebrating Harvest in Winscombe

Harvest Festival was celebrated in Winscombe on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th October.

On Saturday evening a Harvest Supper was held in the Church Centre with some 50 guests attending to enjoy food and fellowship. Cold meats with a selection of salads were served followed by generous portions of homemade apple crumble and cream. There was a quiz and an after-supper activity, both on harvest themes, to make us use our little grey cells too!

On Sunday morning members of all three churches in the Benefice gathered in the Church Centre for our Harvest Festival Service.

The hall was beautifully decorated with seasonal arrangements by our talented team of flower arrangers.

An informal service included time to give our gifts of non-perishable food to our local food banks, and lots of singing including ‘We Plough the Fields and Scatter’ to slightly different words.

We Plough the fields with tractors

With drills we sow the land;

But growth is still the wondrous gift

Of God’s almighty hand.

Our reflection was an interactive one involving the children in using the letters of the word HARVEST to make new words and explore the meaning of the celebration – EARTH, EAT, STARVE, SHARE, HEART and STAR!

The children made baskets of play dough food, coloured in the letters of HARVEST and decorated paper plates after sticking a children’s grace in the centre.

After the service we all shared our Harvest Loaf with a cup of tea or coffee.