Harvest Thanksgiving Service 2006

Great Witley Church

This year's Harvest thanksgiving service was held in the late afternoon of October 15th 2006 with a splendid offering of harvest gifts, which were taken the next day to one of the neighbouring residential homes, where they are always welcome.


Again it was a pleasure to welcome a large group of children from Great Witley Primary School, who were accompanied by one of their teachers, and by the new Head Teacher, Mr David Smith.	Mr Smith read the passage from Deuteronomy which relates Moses' command to the people of Israel to make an offering of the first fruits of their first harvest in the Promised Land.

Many of the children explained what they liked best about the harvest offerings, and they also recited a humorous poem about the hardships of being a farmer's boy.	Our thanks to all concerned and we look forward to doing it again about the same time next year. Come and join us...

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Britain's finest Baroque Church. St. Michael and All Angels Church, Great Witley, A443 Worcester - Tenbury Wells road, 10 miles north-west of Worcester. As the parish church for the villages of Great Witley and Little Witley it is used regularly for services and concerts. The church is open to visitors daily. The church, now almost fully restored, displays a splendour which is unique amongst country churches in Britain, with exquisite gilded decorations throughout, numerous paintings by Antonio Bellucci, ten painted glass windows depicting scenes from the New Testament, highly decorative carving and a large monument by Rysbrack. It also has a fine organ, its case being from the instrument on which Handel played. Many musicians consider its acoustics for music to be as fine as any building of its size outside London