The Autumn Newsletter for St Stephen Walbrook is available by clicking here and features information about new curate Revd Sally Muggeridge, feedback on our Discover & explore and Start:Stop initiatives, news of a programme of events focusing on Philanthropy in the City, details of our Business Harvest Festival, and news of our art and music programmes.
This year’s Business Harvest Festival takes place at St Stephen
Walbrook on Wednesday September 30th at 1pm, and will be
followed by a Reception.
Traditionally harvest is a time when the country gives thanks for
the natural gifts of the land and the safe harvesting of them. We
give thanks for that, but in the City of London we also take the
opportunity of bringing to the altar symbols of the work we do in
our City. It might be hospitality, accounts, commodities, money,
building, the wine trade or any of the variety of businesses
associated with the wider family of St Stephen Walbrook. By
tradition the parish has been a centre for the insurance markets,
banking, hospitality, tourism and law. You could add, at this time,
the building industry and property developers.
We have a tradition that companies designate someone to bring an
object to represent their work and to place it on the altar as a
symbol during the service. All are most welcome and we very much
hope that you will include your business associates in the invitation
and ask you to pass on to them our hope that they might join you
for this traditional celebration of harvest with a modern slant.
This is a time of change and at such times it is encouraging to be
reminded of the continuity of life and the many blessings we each
receive focused on harvest time. The Business harvest includes all
aspects of the wider parish of St Stephen and has representations
from the City Civic as well as the City of London Police and the
Friends of Walbrook.
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Barclay James Harvest - Hymn.
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