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Seasonal Prayers - Harvest

Thank you for animals

Give out circles of paper and invite everyone to write a prayer about animals on it. Stick the prayer circles onto a large piece of card to look like a caterpillar and stick a smiley face with antennae on the front. You might want to add feet to the circles.

For those who sow the first seeds

Hold up an apple and ask how many seeds there might be inside it. Cut the apple open and count the seeds to discover who guessed correctly. All of these seeds have the potential to grow into an apple tree and produce fruit of their own. In the parable of the sower, Luke 8:4-15, Jesus teaches that the seed is like God’s Word. In the right situation it will grow and flourish. Ask everyone who first told them about Jesus, who sowed the first seed. Thank God for all these people, e.g. parents, friends, Sunday school leaders and church leaders.

Flowers

Place a vase filled with water centrally. Scatter flowers on the table or floor around the vase. Explain that the flowers need to be put back in the container with the water in order to live. We need to be in contact with God to be whole and to know life in its fullness.

Ask everyone to pray, in silence, for people and situations they know that need the life-giving Spirit given by Jesus. Invite them to place one of the scattered flowers back in the vase as a token of their prayer in silence, or with a brief explanation of their prayer. When the vase is full it can be placed on the altar.

Harvest Festival

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This short presentation is based on the well-known song from the Sound of Music – "Do-Re-Mi" (doe, a deer...)

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