Dear Reader,
On Sunday we celebrated the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. Here’s the Collect prayer for the day:
Everlasting God, you have ordained and constituted the ministries of angels and mortals in a wonderful order: grant that as your holy angels always serve you in heaven, so, at your command, they may help and defend us on earth; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
I pray you are blessed by their keeping watch over you this week. Andrew+
Please read the notices below about Harvest Festival next Sunday 5 October. There will be one joint Service at 10.30am for everyone, followed by Baked Potato Harvest Lunch now fully booked.
Our Harvest Appeal is twofold:
1. the Bishop’s Appeal and
2. locally to Heart of Marston and NEED project
Bishops Harvest Appeal: Rewrite Their Future
This year’s appeal is called Rewrite Their Future, and we are once again partnering with Mission Direct. Their work in Uganda and Zambia is focused on building schools and improving access to education in some of the world’s most under-resourced communities. After one year, these schools supported by Mission Direct will serve over 2,945 children, of which 1,170 will be benefitting from new classrooms —and over the next 20 years, 23,400 children will gain access to education that would otherwise be out of reach. Cash donations or Card Reader
List of items to bring for Harvest:
any fresh produce for Heart of Marston and canned & dry goods for NEED Project please
Tea bags, Coffee, Drinking Chocolate
Sugar
Pasta, Long Grain Rice
Cereals
Pasta Sauces or Bakes
Soups – packet or tinned
Tinned Veg – e.g. Tomatoes, sweetcorn, peas, carrots
Potatoes
Biscuits
Tinned Fruit, Custard
Tinned spaghetti, raviolis
Tinned fish – e.g. Tuna, Salmon
Squash, Fruit Juice
Preserves – e.g. Jam, Honey, Chocolate Spread
Tomato Ketchup
Long Life Milk – cartons
Tinned Meat – e.g. Ham, corned beef, beef & onions
Chicken in Sauce
Curries
Chilli
Rice Pudding – tinned
Baked Beans
Toiletries such as toothpaste and soap
John 1:47–51 NIV When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”
“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.
Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”
Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel.”
Jesus said, “You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.” He then added, “Very truly I tell you, you will see ‘heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on’ the Son of Man.”
