{"id":9776,"date":"2013-09-23T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9776"},"modified":"2013-09-23T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T22:57:08","slug":"we-plough-the-fields-and-scatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9776","title":{"rendered":"We Plough the Fields and Scatter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAt Trinity yesterday we had the annual Harvest Festival. Most of the food donations were loaded into a car and taken to ‘Asylum Welcome’ – who need all the food they can get. Refugee numbers are up because of the war in Syria. <\/p>\n

Rev’d Richard said there had been a good harvest this year with a wet spring followed by a dry summer.
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\nRound the church were far more flowers than usual as part of a Harvest Flower Festival. Each display had a text … “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”<\/i>
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\nWalking in fields yesterday, after the service, we saw Maize in abundance.
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\nBut for the UK inshore fleet – fishing boats mostly under 10 metres in length which operate in coastal waters – fish stocks are at historically low levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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