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HOLY TRINITY WOODBURN - POTTER'S HOUSE HARVEST PROJECT
The children of Holy Trinity Woodburn presenting the Rev Trevor Stevenson (Director of Fields of Life) with a cheque to purchase chickens as part of Fields of Life's micro-economic project in East Africa.  The children decorated the church with paintings of chickens for the harvest celebrations instead of the usual harvest produce. Woodburn Parish had hosted the Fields of Life Celebration Choir earlier in the year and the idea for this 'alternative harvest' grew out of that experience. The children spent time learning about Uganda and how out of their riches they could help others in need. Further information concerning Fields of Life can be obtained from www.fieldsoflife.com. 
Rev Alan McCann (Rector of Woodburn) believed that the children benefited more from this type of harvest celebration than the traditional flowers, fruit and vegetable decorations. The truth is for a parish like Woodburn harvest produce to decorate the church comes from the supermarkets and we felt that the money would be better going to Fields of Life than into supermarket profits. The children enjoyed learning about another part of the world and learnt a valuable lesson of sharing the blessing of their riches in order to bless others. Potter's House (our Sunday School) decided at the beginning of October to do this project for harvest and in three weeks raised £665. Each chicken costs £2 and the children were delighted at the thought of how many chickens they had purchased for families in East Africa. It helped that the children had spent time earlier in the year with the choir from Uganda and Annette Neema (from Uganda) had spent three months at Holy Trinity during the summer. The Rev McCann and others from Holy Trinity have been to Uganda on several occasions helping to train teachers in bible teaching and discipleship courses. It is hoped that this is the first of many such projects with Fields of Life.
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