In the Moscow Church, the "Live Word" of September 18, 2016 was a holiday harvest. Many people gladly came to the holiday. The church hall was full, approximately 120-150 people came. The festive program was perfect perfect, to the glory to the Lord: Songs, Scenes, the Word of God, Games, Feast and so on ... The goal of the holiday of the harvest is the story of unbelieving people about the essence of the meaning of life and calling them to gain salvation through Jesus Christ.

Traditionally, a harvest with fields, vegetable gardens and gardens becomes decorated with the harvest.

The leading Danil G. happily greeted all the love of Christ. Many viewers gladly looked at the scenes and carefully listened to the Word of God.

Pastor Arthur J. He conducted a blessing of children.

Teenagers are sorry to God: "For all thanksgiving ...".

Anastasia A. And Daria B. glorified God: "Mature all the harvest ...".

The program of the holiday was a teenage theater formulation of the "fruit fruit". In it, the children clearly depicted that the Lord wants us in their lives to bring the fruit of the Spirit and became similar to the image of his son Jesus Christ. Our fruit fruit is to imitate Christ in everything: in its character, behavior, lifestyle.

The second scene was on the topic "Harvest - the end of the century." Participants of this scene showed that our life may end up at any time. Two different events were depicted: for those prepared for death and for those who were not ready to meet with God after death. The result was summed up: to find eternal life, be ready for a meeting with God, - We can only through faith in Jesus Christ!

Pastor Arthur J. preached on the topic of "Harvest". When we have a deadline, we can prevent empty spending time. It is necessary to decide: why, when and how to perform work. All our affairs can be divided into 4 categories: "Important and urgent cases", "important, but not urgent things", "urgent, but not important cases" and "not urgent and not important things." Mostly people run on urgent matters, and not important. Of course, you need to do urgent things. But, neglecting important things, and making only urgent cases, ultimately, nothing remains, i.e. emptiness. Result Sermon: The most important and urgent case for all people without exception is to reconcile with God through faith in Jesus Christ.

Nadezhda P. Praville Lord: "Come to me ...".

Sisters in Christ glorified Jesus Christ for wonderful gifts.

Meanwhile, after the blessing of the pastor, teachers sunday school We spent interesting lessons for children. Children were offered various crafts and games, for every taste.

Older children listened to Teachers, and after discussed the topic: "The fruit of the Spirit."

And at the end of the holiday everyone was waiting for a delicious feast!

The boys discussed how different fruits and vegetables are called. It is useful to know about it.

Some after the holiday shared each other interested in their questions from the Holy Scriptures.

Fame to the Lord for this wonderful holiday !!!

Text: Arthur J.

Natalia Ulazkin

Registration musical Hall . Subject " Harvest holiday"

Making decorations with your own hands.

In November, it's very cold and sad on the street. All the leaves from the trees have already shielded vintage has long collected, days have become short and sun looks quite rarely. Everything around as if stopped waiting for the winter.

But we, in our children's gardenAnd did not think to be sad. Together with the children we decided to arrange Harvest holiday What would re-survive those beautiful moments who gave us summer and autumn!

And what would our holiday It turned out warm solar we decided decorate it with a whole field of sunflowers. After all sunflower - Summer and sun symbol. It seems to be shining his petals and fills the soul with his warmth.

As it turned out to make what beautiful flower Not at all difficult.

Us need: Cardboard, colored paper black color, corrugated paper yellow color, Watman or a piece of wallpaper Long 1 m., Gouache black and green, glue and scissors.

Let's proceed.

From cardboard and black paper cut circles, a diameter of 20 cm and 19 cm, respectively (can be any size, the main thing that the circle of cardboard was about 1 cm more)

From corrugated paper, we cut the petals, slightly twisted them with a pencil

Printe the petals on cardboard

petals make two rows

we stick a black circle on top

draw a black gouache grid

Our sunflower almost ready

It remains to make a stem. We together with children painted a piece of wallpapers in green colorAnd after cut the stems and leaves.

The grass also made a piece of wallpaper

And that's what we did in total:

Petals reflected in the mirror steel twice the volume.

And our hall shone the warmth and the sun!

Publications on the topic:

Floral pumps for the decoration of the hall to the matinee is very easy and simple! For this we need: Colored paper napkins (preferably.

Graduation Ball Last holiday preschoolers in his native kindergarten. The organization of this holiday is the responsible thing. It is prepared in advance.

Spring inspired me! Sunny days are increasingly and all blooms in the soul. I imagine you simple idea manufacturing gentle flowerwhich.

I wanted to decorate the hall to autumn holiday Unusual balls. We started the embodiment of the conceived. Our leaves turned out at all.

Good afternoon, dear colleagues. In anticipation graduation Matrennikov I decided to make these wonderful flowers to decorate the musical.

There are many holidays that celebrate different Christian denominations. The Orthodox Church hits records. All holidays that are noted there are approximately half of the calendar year. There are also holidays that are the same for everyone - this is the Great Day of Sunday Christ (Easter), as well as the third common for everyone is the harvest - it is easier to say thanksgiving. The harvest is always celebrated at the beginning of autumn, after harvesting.

Where does this holiday be taken from?

Back in antiquity, this holiday was considered one of the most significant for the whole year. Since agriculture was almost the only source of food, then people appreciated each vegetable and fruit, treated on Earth. Even our ancestors - pagans who had no idea about God, and even more Christianity, he won the land, called her Mother and brought her a victim in gratitude for everything she gave her in the late summer.

The very first mention of gratitude for food is recorded on the pages of the Bible a little later the creation of the world, when two brothers (which occurred from the first people on Earth) brought to sacrifices to God. These most they thanked him for what they have than to eat and do.

Since the person is a social being, it cannot exist in a limited and isolated space. Therefore, you have to build communications in communication with people. It is impossible to do without habit thank you for the attention done, help and much more.

So in a more global plan. Our nature, God gives a harvest every year in large quantities, so we must have a grateful heart.

How did Jews celebrated him?

Jews knew that all of God was waiting for sincere thanksgiving. For this reason, the gift of Cain was rejected, as he was in his heart envy, and not thanks. God does not depend on people. He is self-sufficient, so, giving a man life and everything to life, he is waiting for the first fruits people will bring him as a sign of gratitude. When God spoke to his people, how to live him, he gave direct instructions about the harvest holiday. In the book, the outcome is written a direct command that you need to observe and comply with this holiday (here is first mentioned that the harvest is the collection of the first harvest from the on-site). Then later, in the Book of Deuteronomy, we can see how the Jews celebrated this holiday. It says that you need to count 7 weeks since the first harvest fee on the field will begin. After that, the days of the harvest come - the time when the people collect all the best in one place (as much as a man wants to give), then he is having fun and thanks God. This was done so that every Israeli remembers that the Egyptians were in slavery, and now has its land and harvest.

Harvest in the church of Protestants

To date, many churches celebrate and wait for the harvest time. There is not a single spiritual teaching that would relegate thanks. Christians, having convinced that everyone in their lives is sent from him. Even if you do not take material things, a lot is given to us for a comfortable life for nothing. there is wonderful words About material: you can buy medicines, but you can not buy health; bed, but not sleep; food, but not appetite; as well as affection, but not love. We receive for nothing every day sunlight, we feel the wind coolness, rejoice in the rain, walk through the snow, with delight we consider the autumn painting on the leaves and patterns from the frost on the glasses. Christians know that every MIG is valuable, and there is no time for Ropot or discontent. It is aware of the gifts of God in his life, believers thank you for them every day, and especially for the holiday harvest in the church.

Each church is distinguished by its traditions of the celebration of this day. Some this is a certain day on the calendar, many Christian communities are celebrated with dinner and tea drinking, thereby feeding hungry and low-income people. Also, the peculiarity of the harvest is the almost design church decoration: still lifes, compositions, thematic creations are created from the parishioners. Everything is decorated, which is only possible in the meeting room, but special attention is paid to the space before the department (a special place for sermons and instructions).

Harvest for US residents

For residents of North America, the harvest is generally public Holiday. True, there he wears a little different name - Thanksgiving Day, that in our language means Thanksgiving.

Orthodox Thanksgiving Day

Although Orthodox believers do not define any of their holidays as a harvest, they also have the days of Thanksgiving God for the harvest and his gifts to people. In this religion, the days of harvest are some holidays in which the products and harvesting are mentioned. These days include honey saved, Bread saved, Apple Spass and some others. These holidays fall out for a while when agricultural works end in the fields, this period from the beginning of August to early October. These days, Christians of this faith also thank God for everything that they have in a new crop, for strength, health and food. As well as very closely such holidays echo folk signs. For example, everyone knows the saying: prepare mittens about the supply. "That is, in this way they conduct an analogy with christian holidays and folk observations for the weather.

How do the holiday celebrate now?

In our age modern technologies And creative thinking are still people who are typical of nature gifts to attribute not to their automated work, and God's blessing for people. Currently, the harvest is a holiday that has two meanings. The first is gratitude to the Lord for multiplying the number of planted products in several times. No wonder in the Bible says: "... what we will lay, then you will get rich ... I get rich enough - you will get rich enough, they seek, scarcely and get rid ..." So it turns out: a man puts a potato bucket, gets 10 buckets, will plant a ton will receive 10 tons. The second meaning is to summarize with its actions and thoughts, as well as an assessment of the image of your life. The Christian harvest involves an assessment by people - as their life corresponds to the biblical principles, whether they are given as Christ taught.

Why is it important to thank?

The grateful heart is always in price. Who wants to do something for you, if you perceive it as proper? Everyone is nice for a good deed to gratefully. Christians believe that everything that they have in life is sent by God. And indeed, it is not dependent on us in early June, which are vital for all plants. Even the best watering will not replace the good June rain! Not from us depends the amount of solar heat and light, which are also powered for our vegetables and fruits. We are not regulating frosts in early April, which can kill the emerging life in the kidneys. For timely rains, the ability to plant and remove the crop of Christians should thank one who provides all this. Therefore, the feast of the harvest was introduced.

If you take into account only the scientific aspect of gratitude, the scientists have long proved the fact that the life content determines its quality. The state of health is also taken into account (in grateful people it is much better), and activity, as well as close friendships and success in professional activities.

Harvest: the value of the holiday at the spiritual level

Thanksgiving celebrate not only to eat, bring the best fruit and communicate (although it is important). Even Christians pay special attention to the spiritual component of this day. The feast of the harvest in the church is held in order to remind parishioners that we sow in life. On this day, everyone sets himself a question: "Do I have a good in relationship with others? Does love for others live in me, patience, grace, compassion, because these qualities are now very necessary for people?" etc.

What does the Bible say about the harvest?

Many attention in the Bible is given to the spiritual value of the holiday. There are so many references to different books that somehow open the meaning of this day. The harvest holiday is also illuminated in the Holy Book as the end of the century. There is a question about the soul: the fall of life comes, soon a person has to die, where his Bible will draw the attention of all people to the fact that everyone should be saved. That is, you need to believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sake of every sinner, to, believing in him, the person got into paradise, and not to hell.

Usually after the summer, many gospel churches celebrate the so-called "harvest holiday" - usually it is celebrated or at the end of September, or in early October - there is no uniform date. I would call this holiday "Russian Christian Thanksgiving Day" - orthodox church There is also something like that - perhaps the holiday is so not called, but something is exactly there such dates.

So, before the start of the meeting, those responsible for decoration hall are usually collected:



These are usually a few people who bring different fruits and vegetables with them to decorate with them the department, where the preacher appears, as well as other parts of the hall


They try to make a beautiful picture of fruits to the maximum:

But the first visitors to the Church with children began to appear - children have a special program from Sunday school: children will play different vegetables and fruits and tell the poem. Before you typical representative - guess what kind of fruit or vegetable pretty Baby? (answer at the end)

Among guests are representatives different countries "This guest arrived from Kazakhstan to St. Petersburg - the meeting came at the invitation of friends. Visits the same church of the Evangelical Christians - only in Kazakhstan (Central Asia).

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Gradually, the hall was filled with people and a meeting begins with a general singing - the choir with musicians is a little nervous - the holiday is still ..

Many come to church come with children - some go to Sunday school, and someone sits with parents:

Musicians prepared a festive music program - some festive thematic songs of glorifying the Lord God, thanks to God for everything:

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Singing lasts about 20-30 minutes - during which time they have time to sing about 8 songs. This is a festive logistics, so songs this time more than usual.

It came a turn of the speech of children - they represent their program - every child tells with the help of a poem learned with his parents what kind of fruit today (video from this speech of children)

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Many parents and not only prepared video and photo technique for filming is possible the first performances of their Chad:

One of the families timed the blessing of her baby to this holiday - the whole Church and Pastor prays for the baby:

Next is the sermon in the topic of the holiday of the harvest - our relationship of the heart, about gratitude to God for everything:

Next, again the music group has prepared festive songs for general singing:

After the meeting, many of the meeting participants want to capture themselves together with the composition of fruits and vegetables. There will be such a good picture for memory!

After worship, everyone goes to a cafe for a festive program with food and contests - on the tables and for all:

So, the leading is the first contest "Whose thing is?" - shows the thing and asks who it can belong - you need to guess a person.

Someone suffers on stage and fulfills the competition - he always has a smiling support team.

An attempt using a tube, which consists of a variety of other tubes drink juice from the nearby table - Creative and only! Holiday harvest because! :)

Communication and discussion of issues from the drives in the tables.

Competition in the tables - each table should wrap what it will turn to arm and scotching egg so that it does not break down when falling on the tile. That's where the fantasy turns on to full!

First throw egg ...

And then they look - crashed or not. In my opinion, only one or two crashed out of 6. Most wrapped eggs into such a wrap, which was difficult not to break - it was hard to open, to see - crashed or not?

Competition - who will eat the fastest to all the baguette - and this is after the eaten snack ie At the very end of the holiday, when the stomach is already full - volunteers are clearly little desire to have something else:

And the prize for the winner was ... Baguette! Joy no limit!

Ends all the songs - how without them! :)

All this happened in one of the evangelical churches of St. Petersburg -

Harvest in various religions

God-Creator annually gives people a harvest, because he promised after the World Flood: "In the event of all days of the earth, sowing and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not stop" (Bible, Book Being, 8 Chapter, 22 verse).

In the time of the Old Testament, the Lord God set the harvest holiday for those who wanted to live according to his laws. We read about it in the Bible: "Watch your feast of the first fruit of your work, what kind of you sowed on the field, and the feast of the collection of fruits at the end of the year, when you remove your work from the field" (Exodus Book, 23 Chapter, 16 verse). The Israelis after graduating from collecting the harvest thanked God for the abundance of grown fruits. Part of the crop these days they were given to the needs of the temple and for charity.

Christians of various religions today celebrate this holiday, having increasing the gratitude prayers for god-giving earthly fruits.

In the Orthodox tradition, thanks for the crop takes place on holidays, dropping out for the period from August 1 to October 1, when the main agricultural work (honey saved, apple saved, bread saved and others).

The US Christians celebrate Thanksgiving, when a fried turkey is preparing for the festive table - in memory of the fact that the meat of this bird, presented by local Indians, helped the colonists to survive a difficult period before collecting the first harvest when they were in dire need of food.

In our churches, it was already a tradition that many parishioners on this day bring the best fruits grown on their own groceries. Thus, we testify to how the Lord blessed us in the current year.

Holiday harvest in the Old Testament

Harvest holiday has a Old Testament history. Jews celebrated the celebration of the first fruits for which they thanked God.

We can remember the very first history of the Old Testament when Cain and Abel presented to God their first fruits. Abel brought from his herd, and Cain from its fruit (life. 4: 3-4). But God did not despite the gifts of Cain, because in the heart of Cain there was not genuine thanksgiving, the true gratitude to God for his gifts to a person (Gen. 4: 7).

We see that the cult of applications to God by the man of the first gifts has an ancient origin. In such an offer, a person expressed his appreciation and gratitude to God, entering him into an intimate circle of relations between reciprocity and love. This was the priesthood of a person: cultivating the life given to him, it was expected that he would bring this life, her first fruits, God.

God is a self-sufficient creature. His being is no reason. He, as a person, expects from us created by their free personalities, retaliatory love. This love is checked and evaluated by God in our first fruits.

With the appearance of the Israeli people, God gives a new nation of the commandment. Among them, we meet the instructions of Israel to comply with the feast of the harvest: "Watch your feast of the first fruit of your work, what sowed on the field" (see Ex. 23: 14-16, Prame 18; as well as Ex. 34: 21-22 , Levit 23: 15-16, Dev. 16: 9-12). In Deuteronomy, we read: "Seven weeks are counted yourself; Start counting seven weeks from the time that the sickle appears on the harvest; Then make the holiday of the saddiments to the Lord, your God, by the diligence of your hands, how much you give, depending on what the Lord bless you, God is yours; and have fun before the Lord, your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your slave, and your servant, and Levit, who is in your dwellings, and the newcomer, and the widow, who among you, in place, Which will choose the Lord, God is yours in order to be there his name there; Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and observe and comply with the decisions of this. "

From here we see that one of the features of the holidays was in the memoirs (Art. 12). Celebrating the "harvest" for the fiftieth day (the saddles - the number of full weeks, from here, another name of the festival "Pentecost", by number of days after Easter) After the main and central holiday of Easter, the Jews were to remember what was with them when they were slaves in Egypt. A similar idea of \u200b\u200b"memories" is important in the commandments of Jesus, in baker.

And again you can see the close relationship of this memories with the idea of \u200b\u200bthanksgiving. I rejoiced your deprivation and slavery in Egypt, the Jewish people thanked God for liberation from Ultrasound and oppression in a foreign country. This memory was decorated in a festive form when Israel had fun in the face of the Lord!

Holiday harvest in the New Testament

For the feast of Pentecost, the historical birth of the Christian church has occurred at the descent of the Holy Spirit. Apostles and all those gathered in the doors began to speak different languages. All this testified that God draws his gaze to the pagans, pointing to the universal measurement of the church born. This propheticly pointed to the words of Jesus Christ: "I say to you that many will come from the east and west and will be removed with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 8:11; Lux 13:29). Reclining is not a sleepy state, but indicating the process of meals. The task of the Christian mission was reduced to make and continue to commit an eternal celebration of the true Easter in the future, the prototype of which Jesus Christ was.

Jesus talks about the future of Peter of the Kingdom, during which he will drink new wine (Matt. 26:29). On this feast, the marriage of the Lamb and the Church, all people are invited, all the ends of the earth are called. But the blessed are those who come (Rev. 19: 7-9).

We see that the festive side of relations with God after the tragic retreat of a person in the Eden Garden finds its continuation in the development of relations between God (Lamb Jesus) and his church (bride).

According to legend, the Israeli people on the fiftieth day after their deliverance from the Egyptian captivity approached Mount Sinai, where Moses received the law. This serves as a prototype of what happened in that hill, where the apostles gathered. The Holy Spirit, having taken to the church, created a new society. It is significant that all this happened a day when Israel celebrated the event of the descent of the Spirit of God on the Psalm Mountains.

Harvest in the history of the Christian Church

Over time, the church digested only some Jewish holidays (for example, a holiday was not part of the calendar, entering a separate church calendar). Some holidays fell into the category of festivities who have made and pagans. As a result, the synthesis of pagan and Christian rituals occurs.

Since the time of reformation, the Holidays tried to return his original place in the church calendar, because before that he was associated with those festivities that were held in August-October, and in which the sanctification of the Church took place. After the Reformation (since 1770), this holiday began to celebrate as a liturgical.

Nowadays, the day of the harvest is usually celebrated on the first Sunday after September 22 or the first Sunday of October.

In all evangelical churches, regardless of confessional affiliation, the worship hall is drawn up with flowers, compositions of vegetables and fruits, wreaths of wheat ears are put, braids from the onion onion are postponed.

Celebrating the harvest, the church expresses its essence and the purpose - gratitude to God and the love of him.

The spiritual meaning of the holiday harvest

"What a man will sit, then get out" (Bible, Message to Galatam, 6 chapter, 7 verse). This well-known law extends not only to the material sphere, but also on the spiritual one. He calls us to the sow of blessed seeds of good, love and compassion, as people need it.

Once the Prophet Jeremiah noted: "The harvest passed, the summer ended, and we were not saved" (the Bible, the book of the Prophet Jeremiah, 8 chapter, 20 verse). Material well-being is God's blessing. The lack of gratitude in our life is a consequence of spiritual apathy, our recruitment and death.

Christian churches are calling for people, you personally think about the fact that everything in this world is transient and temporarily. God all gives us the opportunity to communicate with him. The harvest is the holiday of our joy and thanksgiving not only for the earthly, but for the eternal life, which God gave us in his son Jesus Christ!