Harvest Festival

Harvest Festival is a celebration of gifts of food grown through the summer months that will keep the people fed through the dark days of winter and until new crops are available in the following spring.

Thanksgiving ceremonies and celebrations for a successful harvest are both worldwide and very ancient. In Britain, we have given thanks for successful harvests since pagan times. We celebrate this day by singing, praying and decorating our churches with baskets of fruit and food in a festival known as ‘Harvest Festival’, usually during the month of Septembea

Harvest Festival is a celebration of gifts of food grown through the summer months that will keep the people fed through the dark days of winter and until new crops are available in the following spring.

Thanksgiving ceremonies and celebrations for a successful harvest are both worldwide and very ancient. In Britain, we have given thanks for successful harvests since pagan times. We celebrate this day by singing, praying and decorating our churches with baskets of fruit and food in a festival known as ‘Harvest Festival’, usually during the month of September.

Suggested Hymns

• A Love Song Soothes My Soul So (Suzi, Piano Ensemble, 3 Verses)
• All Creation Bless The Lord (Campian, Organ, 5 Verses)
• All Creatures Of Our God And King (Lasst Uns Erfreuen, Organ, 7 Verses)
• Angel Voices Ever Singing (Angel Voices, Organ, 5 Verses)
• Beautiful Saviour, King Of Creation (St Elizabeth, Organ, 4 Verses)
• City Of God, How Broad And Far (Richmond, Organ, 5 Verses)
• Come Ye Thankful People (Saint George’s Windsor, Brass Band, 4 Verses)
• Come Ye Thankful People (Saint George’s Windsor, Organ, 4 Verses)
• Fair Waved The Golden Corn (Holyrood – 5 Verses) – Organ
• Fairest Lord Jesus (Crusader’s Hymn, Organ & Trumpet, 3 Verses)
• Farmer Farmer Why Do You Plough (Small Band, 4 Verses)
• For Every Blade Of Bright Green Grass (Green Grass – 5 Verses) – Piano Ensemble
• For The Beauty Of The Earth (Dix, Organ, 5 Verses)
• For The Beauty Of The Earth (England’s Lane, Organ, 5 Verses)
• For The Beauty Of The Earth (Heathlands, Organ, 4 Verses)
• For The Healing Of The Nations (Alleluia Dulce Carmen, Organ, 4 Verses)
• For The Healing Of The Nations (Picardy, Organ, 4 Verses)
• God Who Made The Earth (Sommerlied – 4 Verses) – Organ
• God Whose Farm Is All Creation (Gott Will’s Machen, Organ, 3 Verses)
• How Sweet And Awesome Is The Place (St Columba, Piano Ensemble, 6 Verses)
• How Tedious And Tasteless The Hours (Green Fields, Organ, 4 Verses)
• King Of Love O Christ, We Crown Thee (Hermon, Organ, 4 Verses)
• Let Us With A Gladsome Mind (Monkland, Organ, 7 verses)
• Lord Of The Harvest (Organ, 4 Verses)
• O Breath Of Life (Spiritus Vitae, Organ, 4 Verses)
• O Christ Who Holds The Open Gate (Gonfalon Royal, Organ, 4 Verses)
• This Is My Father’s World (Terra Beata, Organ, 3 Verses)
• We Plough The Fields And Scatter (Wir Pflügen, Brass Band, 3 Verses)
• We Sing The Mighty Power Of God (Ellacombe, Organ, 3 Verses)
• When The Starlight Fades (Volga Mat’ Rodnaya, Piano Ensemble, 4 Verses)