Harvest Festival
(word for hymns and bibles follow the order of service)

Welcome & Intimations
Call to Worship
MP732: We plough the fields and scatter
Introducing Harvest 2021
What grows
Bible reading Psalm 65: 9 – 12
All age Reflection
Prayer & Lord’s Prayer
Video – Harvest Samba
What inspires  –  The good earth
Bible Reading Psalm 19: 1-6
Reflection
Prayer
MP 153 : For the fruit of his creation
What concerns – care for creation and the created
Bible reading Psalm 8
Powerpoint
Reflection
CH4 240: God in such love
Intercessions
MP152: For the beauty of the earth
Blessing

 

Call to Worship
Leader: Praise the Lord!
All: Praise the Lord, my soul!
Leader: I will praise him as long as I live;
All: I will sing to God all my life.
Leader: Happy are those who trust in God.
All: He always keep his promise.
Leader: The Lord is King forever.
All: Let us worship the Lord.

MP732: We plough the fields and scatter 

1 We plough the fields and scatter
the good seed on the land
but it is fed and watered
by God’s almighty hand;
He sends the snow in winter,
the warmth to swell the grain,
the breeze and the sunshine
and soft refreshing rain.
Chorus: All good gifts around us
are sent from heaven above
then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord,
for all His love.

2 He only is the maker
of all things near and far;
He paints the wayside flower,
He lights the evening star;
the wind and waves obey Him,
by Him the birds are fed;
much more of us, His children,
He gives our daily bread.

3 We thank You then, O Father,
for all things bright and good,
the seed-time and the harvest,
our life, our health, our food.
Accept the gifts we offer
for all You love imparts;
we come now, Lord, to give You
our humble, thankful hearts.

Psalm 65 : 9 – 13 NIV
You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly.
The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain,
for so you have ordained it. You drench its furrows and level its ridges;
you soften it with showers and bless its crops.
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.
The grasslands of the wilderness overflow; the hills are clothed with gladness.
The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain;
they shout for joy and sing.

Psalm 19 : 1 – 6 NIV
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them.
Yet their voice^] goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other;
nothing is deprived of its warmth.

MP 153 : For the fruit of his creation

1 For the fruits i His creation,
thanks be to God!
For His gifts to every nation,
thanks be to God!
For the ploughing, sowing, reaping,
silent growth while we are sleeping;
future needs in earth safe’s keeping,
thanks be to God.

2 In the just reward of labour,
God’s will is done;
in the help we give our neighbour,
God’s will is done;
in our world-wide task of caring
for the hungry and despairing;
in the harvests we are sharing,
God’s will is done.

3 For the harvests of the Spirit,
thanks be to God!
For the good we all inherit,
thanks be to God!
For the wonders that astound us
for the truths that still comfort us;
most of all, that love has found us,
thanks be to God!

Psalm 8 NIV
Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory in the heavens.
Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honour. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

CH4 240: God in such love

1 God in such love for us lent us this planet
gave it a purpose in time and space
small as a spark from the fire of creation,
cradle of life and the home of our rock.

2 Thanks be to God for its bounty and beauty,
life that sustains us in body and mind;
plenty for all, if we learn how to share it,
riches undreamed of to fathom and find.

3 Long have our human wars ruined is harvest;
long has earth bowed to the terror of force;
long have we wasted what others have the need of,
poisoned the fountain of life at its source.

4 Earth is the Lord’s; it is ours to enjoy it,
ours, as God’s stewards, to farm and defend.
From its pollution, misuse, and destruction,
good Lord, deliver us, world without end!

MP152: For the beauty of the earth

1 For the beauty of the earth,
for the beauty of the skies,
for the love which from our birth,
over and around us lies;
Father, unto You we raise
this our sacrifice of praise.

2 For the beauty of each hour
of the day and of the night
hill and vale, and tree and flower,
sun and moon, and stars of light;
Father, unto You we raise
this our sacrifice of praise.

3 For the joy of love from God,
that we share on earth below;
for our friends and family,
and the love that they can show;
Father, unto You we raise,
this our sacrifice of prayer.

4 For each perfect gift divine
to our race so freely given,
thank You Lord that they are mine,
here on earth as gifts from heaven;
Father, unto You we raise,
this our sacrifice of prayer.