Services for September
- Sunday 14 September at 16.00: Village Service, Creation tide and Climate change games in the churchyard
- Wednesday 17 September at 20.30: Night Prayer or Compline
- Sunday 21 September at 10.30am: Holy Communion
Services for October:
- Sunday 5 October at 10.30: Harvest Festival
- Sunday 12 October at 16.00: Village Service
- Wednesday 15 October at 20.30 Night Prayer or Compline
- Sunday 19 October at 10.30: Holy Communion
Concert by the Zephirus Recorder Quartet
Saturday 4th October, 19.30, St Peter’s Church
If you think that the recorder is an instrument that school children learn to play and is therefore simple and limited in its range, you are wrong! The Zephirus Quartet play a huge range of Recorders, of all shapes, sizes and tones! The concert will include music from around the world – England, Italy, Germany, Africa and America. There will be poems in between the pieces. It will be a gentle yet stimulating evening of music. Tickets are not required but you are asked to make a donation to church funds.
Harvest in Horningsea
Sunday 5 October at 10.30, St Peter’s Church
The fields around Horningsea are being ploughed and no doubt seed is being scattered for winter crops! The traditional Harvest Service at St Peter’s Church Horningsea will be on Sunday 5 October at 10.30 when we will sing the well known harvest hymns and listen to the readings. The church will be filled with flowers, fruit and vegetables from gardens and allotments in the village – if you can help decorate the church on Saturday 4th Oct please contact Liz. During the service we hope to have reports from our farmers about the 2025 harvest – it is always interesting to hear how the crops we watch growing during the year have done. This year we had a very dry spring and summer so I expect we will hear that yields were down on previous years ….
We will invite all the children – (and in fact everyone!) to bring something the have grown or made up to the altar for a blessing.
After the service the produce will be sold and the proceeds sent to Farm Africa. This reminds us that however hard our lives are, there are many, many people who are much worse off and who can benefit from some basic help – often a water pump can make all the difference to a village.
October is Black History Month
On Wednesday 22 October at 19.30 at St Peter’s Church, Reverend Sharon Byrne, our curate who is also the Bishops Adviser for Racial Justice, will be talking about the links between Horningsea and the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the 19th Century. In particular what is known about George Gurney, “ a negro, born in Kingston Jamaica, aged about 8” according to the Baptism register, who was baptised in Horningsea in 1807 and the story of Moses Roper, an escaped slave who came and lectured in the school room in Horningsea on 8 January 1861. The report on the lecture describes Moses Roper’s attempts to escape “which he succeeded in doing by secreting himself in the woods; he was captured and bound in irons; several times he was sold, and made many attempts at escape and eventually succeeded in getting away. Having learned from his master the direction of the Polar star, he followed it and ultimately made another escape.” Moses Roper’s book “Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper” which sold over 38,000 copies by 1848, was on display in the Fitzwilliam exhibition “ Resistance, Revolution, Abolition”.
You can also look at the two “ African” heads that were carved on the windows in Victorian times. Why are they there? What do they represent?
Join us at 19.30 on 22 October for a fascinating evening.