St Mary Redcliffe Church Parish Magazine - October 2016

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St Mary Redcliffe With Temple, Bristol & St John the Baptist, Bedminster Vicar Rev Dan Tyndall 0117 231 0067 Associate Vicar Rev Kat Campion-Spall 0117 231 0070 Associate Clergy Rev Canon John Rogan Rev Canon Michael Vooght Rev Canon Neville Boundy Rev Peter Dill Parish Administrator Pat Terry 0117 231 0063 Admin Assistant Ros Houseago 0117 231 0064 The Parish Office 12 Colston Parade, Redcliffe Bristol BS1 6RA 0117 231 0060 Church Wardens Research Assistant Marion Durbur 0117 942 2196 Rhys Williams 0117 231 0068 Richard James 0117 966 2291 Head Verger Education Officer Matthew Buckmaster 0117 231 0061 Sarah Yates 0117 231 0072 Vergers Community Development Officer Carys Underdown 0117 231 0061 Hannah Currant 0117 231 0071 Andy Carruthers 0117 231 0061 Director of Music Andrew Kirk 0117 231 0065 Assistant Organists Claire & Graham Alsop For more information about St Mary Redcliffe visit our web site at www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk Any of the Staff may be contacted at parish.office@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
Are You Flourishing? Kat Campion-Spall The summer is now over and we are firmly in autumn – I picked up a couple of conkers the other day and contemplated turning the heating on this morning! This is, in the natural world, a season of plenty, when the fruits of the spring’s flowering and the summer’s growth are ripe and ready to be harvested and enjoyed. Some of us will be feasting on the produce of gardens, allotments or even hedgerows, enjoying the results of our hard work or of nature’s bounty. The first Sunday of October is our Harvest Festival in church, where we give thanks to God for the abundance of the earth. In the Old Testament, the people were required to give the “first fruits”, the best of the harvest, to God, so it’s also a time to share with others any abundance we have – in our urban setting this is expressed through bringing food for distribution to people who don’t have the resources to provide enough food for themselves or their families. But the Bible, and especially the teachings of Jesus, is rich in the language of flourishing, growth, fruit-bearing and harvest for people too. We all, whether we are gardeners or not, understand what it means to talk about someone flourishing, or growing, or doing fruitful work of one kind or another. Our church vision statement includes the line “people blossom in front of you when they talk about their faith.” So it is a good time of year to think about other kinds of fruits. Which areas of life are you flourishing in? What has borne fruit in your work, your relationships, your life? Where have you grown? And the question that follows from that is, have you offered any of those first fruits to God? It’s harder to quantify than whether you have put your envelope in the
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