Harvest

This morning at CBC we celebrated our Harvest Thanksgiving. Thanking God for all his provision for us - not just the food we have to eat, but also - amongst other things - our beds, friends and family, love, Jesus...

During our service we made a collection of dried foods for Cambridge City Foodbank.

Over recent weeks we've been reading Exodus and Leviticus. Last week thinking about the festivals within the Jewish calendar. And within the instructions of the three harvest festivals there is provision for the care of those less fortunate.

‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the Lord your God' - Leviticus 23:22.

We also learnt about the work that BMS World Mission is doing in Nepal, providing and training occupational therapists to work with victims of spinal injuries. Bringing hope to those who had been told they should simply go home and wait to die.

Here is a poem, 'Backbone' that poet Lucy Berry wrote to help us reflect on this work.