Welcome and Call to Worship (please respond with the words in capitals)
The Lord be with you
AND ALSO WITH YOU.
O magnify the Lord with me
AND LET US PRAISE HIS NAME TOGETHER.
We join as one family in our Father’s presence.
and offer ourselves as a field where the Kingdom might grow.
We meet to praise our Maker,
whose glory is seen as the earth yields her increase.
LORD OF THE HARVEST, WE GIVE YOU THANKS
FOR ALL THE GOOD THINGS YOU PROVIDE. 
ALLELUIA!  AMEN.

HYMN Mission Praise 732 ‘We plough the fields’
Matthias Claudius (1740-1815) tr Jane Montgomery Campbell (1817-78) altd ©1986 Horrobin/Leavens

Prayer and Introduction to Theme

SONG Mission Praise 532 ‘O, O, O how good is the Lord’           
Anon Copyright control

Church News, Reading – John 4:27-42

HYMN ‘We see the fruitful harvest’   
© Sam Hargreaves / Resound Worship, Administered by Jubilate Hymns Ltd

Sermon, Act of Dedication and Blessing

HYMN Mission Praise 153 ‘For the fruits of His creation’
Fred Pratt Green © 1970 Stainer & Bell Ltd

John 4:27-42

The disciples rejoin Jesus
²⁷ Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, ‘What do you want?’ or ‘Why are you talking with her?’
²⁸ Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, ²⁹ ‘Come, see a man who told me everything I’ve ever done. Could this be the Messiah?’ ³⁰ They came out of the town and made their way towards him.
³¹ Meanwhile his disciples urged him, ‘Rabbi, eat something.’
³² But he said to them, ‘I have food to eat that you know nothing about.’
³³ Then his disciples said to each other, ‘Could someone have brought him food?’
³⁴ ‘My food,’ said Jesus, ‘is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. ³⁵ Don’t you have a saying, “It’s still four months until harvest”? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. ³⁶ Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. ³⁷ Thus the saying “One sows and another reaps” is true. ³⁸ I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labour.’
Many Samaritans believe
³⁹ Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, ‘He told me everything I’ve ever done.’ ⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. ⁴¹ And because of his words many more became believers.
⁴² They said to the woman, ‘We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Saviour of the world.’