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LLYTHYR O'R RHEITHORDY

October 2010


Rector of Llandudno
By the beginning of October the special weekend at Holy Trinity Church on 9th / 10th October will be almost upon us. When we were planning this event we tried to think up a title which would convey what it was all about.  Wendy LT kindly said she would go away and think about it and lo and behold within a day or two she had come up with ‘Come Home to Harvest Home’!

The Planning Group was delighted with this title because it cleverly combines several elements of the programme for the weekend. The Open Day on Saturday 9th is designed to attract folk from Llandudno and beyond to come in and see some of the things we do as a parish community. Then on Sunday 10th we will be keeping ‘Back to Church Sunday’ on which members of our congregation have been encouraged to invite former church members (as well as others who may be receptive to such an invitation) to come to worship with them.  This will also be our Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday. So ‘Come Home to Harvest Home’ links an invitation to come back to their spiritual home with the idea of gathering in the harvest.   

The idea that the Church might be our ‘home’ is a powerful one indeed. St Paul writing to members of the church at Ephesus speaks of them as being no longer strangers and aliens but as ‘citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God’ (Eph 2:19). Think for a moment of what your home means to you. It is surely the place where you can relax and be yourself; a place in which, if you are lucky, you can find companionship and love; above all it is the place where you truly belong.

Come Home to Harvest Home’ is an invitation to folk to come back (or to come for the first time) to a Church family which we pray they will soon recognise as their spiritual home, a place where they truly belong. This puts much responsibility on us not just to welcome them on ‘Back to Church Sunday’ but to go on caring for them if they choose to stay and to provide opportunities where together we may all be nurtured and grow in our life in Christ.

Please do pray for ‘Come Home to Harvest Home’ that people will indeed come and feel welcome in our church family, that here they may truly find the presence of Christ, and that we may allow them to enrich our fellowship with their friendship, gifts and talents.          
 

Fr John

Please see the Special Events page for more details of
  Come Home to Harvest Home’.

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