| † St Andrews Proclaiming Christ in Clewer 05 October 2025 Harvest Thanksgiving Festival The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity |
 Winton House Harvest Display WELCOME Harvest Festival It’s that time of year again! This weekend we’ll be busy making teas, buying produce for the Food Share and Baby Bank, cleaning away the cobwebs, marvelling at a bright shiny conkers, and thinking about the heating or an extra jumper? The season has definitely changed, the colours of the trees are changing, and leaves are falling. Autumn is imminent. September is our Creation Season, a time to reflect on the creation, how we care for it and what more we can do towards the future of our planet. It’s a time of thankfulness and caring. October then begins with the Feast of St Francis on the 4th and leads us into Harvest season, a time of gratitude and generosity. Harvest reminds us to reflect on how we might show gratitude towards someone who has done something for us, it might be a thank you card, a text, a visit. What are your symbols of gratitude? The OT reading from Deuteronomy 26, these were instructions of how God’s people were to show their gratitude once they had settled into the land that God was leading them to. And what prompted then was an abundant harvest. They were to take the first fruits of the crop and give them back to God. And so we think about our harvest this year, well it’s been a challenging year in the vegetable patch. Things were slow to take off and then the dry summer has meant a short growing season. Our friends from the allotments will be sharing what they have at our Harvest Market on Saturday. I for one have been preserving as much as I could over the summer. Whether we have an abundance or whether we have just enough, being grateful for that is part of living a Christian life. What we have we share. As always, a percentage of our giving this harvest goes to helping those who have little or nothing. Please join us in our worship – Father providing food for your children, your wisdom guiding teaches us share one with another, so that, rejoicing, sister and brother may know your care. Please join us for tea – peruse the market, choose a chutney to spice up your cheese and crackers, put a couple of extra tins and packets in your shopping trolley- we are grateful for whatever you bring and buy this harvest. Blessings for your week Revd Rosie SUNDAY SERVICES 05TH OCT HARVEST FESTIVAL – 16TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 10:30am Parish Eucharist 5.00pm Evening Prayer COLLECT Creator God, you made the goodness of the land, the riches of the dea and the rhytm of the seasons; as we thank you for the harvest, may we cherish and respect this planet and its peoples, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen READINGS Deuteronomy 26.1-11 “1When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess and you possess it and settle in it, 2 you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name. 3 You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘Today I declare to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.’ 4 When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets it down before the altar of the Lord your God, 5 you shall make this response before the Lord your God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous. 6 When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us, 7 we cried to the Lord, the God of our ancestors; the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. 8 The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders; 9 and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O Lord, have given me.’ You shall set it down before the Lord your God and bow down before the Lord your God. 11 Then you, together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house. Philippians 4.4-9 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9 As for the things that you have learned and received and heard and noticed in me, do them, and the God of peace will be with you. John 6.25-35 25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 26 Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate your fill of the loaves. 27 Do not work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.” 28 Then they said to him, “What must we do to perform the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” 30 So they said to him, “What sign are you going to give us, then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ” 32 Then Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. LAST SUNDAY MORNING SERMON RECORDING Canon Brian’s Sermon for 28 Sep 2025 LISTEN NOTICES PLEASE PRAY FOR The Suffering: Matt, Al,Vivienne, Stef, John F, Joanna, Tom B, Val, Trevor and Hilary. Refugees, Prisoners, the Homeless and those who mourn. The Departed: Sam and all those recently departed this life and those whose anniversaries fall at this time. Baptisms: Weddings: Community Prayers: Clewer Green School, Mrs Branch, Mr Seymour, and all the staff, pupils, staff and governors. Busy Buttons CORE Charity and for all the work that they do. For all our Care Homes, for the safety of residents and staff. We pray also for Windsor Christian Action, and the work of the Homeless Project, Street Angels, and FoodShare, under the umbrella of the Alma Beacon Hub. Please pray for the PCC as they work through the Mission Action Plan and discern God’s mission in Clewer. Parish Cycle of Prayer: Please pray for all who live or work in Nelson Road, Bridgeman Drive, St Johns Drive, Clewer Green SChool, St Edwards First School, St Edwards Middle School and Windsor Girls School. Anglican Cycle of Prayer: please pray for The Anglican Church of Tanzania. Please pray also for the Churches in these Dioceses: Panama (Central America), Pankshin (Nigeria), Panrieng (South Sudan), Panyana (South Sudan), Paraguay (South America), and Paraná (Brazil).Please continue to pray for and support your neighbours and families. HARVEST DONATIONS During our Harvest Festival events we will be collecting donations for the Windsor Food Share and The Baby Bank. If you’re able to please bring items from their wish lists below to Church this weekend.  ARE YOU FIRST AID TRAINED? We’re currently updating out First Aiders list at church. If you are First Aid trained and are happy to go on the list please can you email office@clewerparish.org to let us know with a copy of your certificate. Many Thanks. CHURCH GIVING Thank you to everyone who continues to contribute to our church financially as well as through their time and skills. As we see our congregation grow and our community events increase we invite you to prayerfully consider how you might support this ongoing growth. Every contribution helps us serve our parish here in Clewer. Finance Details Parish Giving Scheme – where one off payments or regular giving can be set up. Alternatively, financial contributions can be paid directly to our bank account, the details of which are: HSBC Bank Sort Code: 40-47-37 Account number: 11373366 Account name: PCC St Andrews Church SERVICES FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS Evening Prayer via Zoom at 5.00pm Tuesdays and Thursdays Morning Prayer on Wednesdays at 8.00am in Church Prayers & Bears – Early Years Liturgy on Fridays at 9.30am in Church The church is open for private prayer 10.00am-5.00pm daily Sun 05 Oct – Harvest Festival 10:30am All Age Family Eucharist 5.00pm Parish Eucharist Sun 12 Oct – 17th Sunday after Trinity 10:30am Parish Eucharist 3.30pm Faith Explorers 5.00pm Evening Prayer Sun 19 Oct – 18th Sunday after Trinity 10:30am Parish Eucharist 3.00pm Wild Worship 5.00pm Evening Prayer Sun 26 Oct – Last after Trinity 10:30am Parish Eucharist 5.00pm Evening Prayer UPCOMING EVENTS Prayers & Bears – Early Years Liturgy has restarted Friday’s at 9.30am – please share with those who might like to join Harvest Festival Weekend 4-5th October Harvest Market & Afternoon Teas Saturday 4th October – 2pm Harvest Festival All Age Eucharist Sunday 5th October – 10.30am Baby Loss Awareness Week 9-15 October – Church open 10am-5pm daily to add messages to the remembrance tree, private prayer or to light a candleAn Introduction to Christian Meditation (4 week course)– 11th,18th,25th October and 1st November – 5pm at St Andrews Community Fridge at St Andrews Saturday 11th October – 11am Wild Worship Sunday 19th October – 3pm at the allotments        CONTACTS Rector Revd Rosie Webb 01753 852334, email: rector@clewerparish.org Parish Office email: office@clewerparish.org Parish Website: www.standrewsclewer.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/standrewsclewer Churchwarden: Vacant Contact via email: office@clewerparish.org Safeguarding Policy: www.standrewsclewer.org/safeguarding-policy Safeguarding Officer: clewerparishsafeguarding@gmail.com |