Northside Friends are invited to attend a Harvest Lunch Potluck with our building partners, Edgewater Presbyterian Church.

Edgewater Presbyterian Church has had, and continues to have, a vibrant African membership with worshippers from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia.

Because of this long African presence, many of its non-African congregants not only have embraced African cultural traditions but have also adopted them for themselves.

One of these traditions is the celebration of Harvest each year around the time in which crops have come to full fruition and are brought in to be shared by the community. In smaller hamlets and villages, these resources are divided up so all can be sustained together.

Edgewater Presbyterian celebrates Harvest on a Sunday sometime before the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S.

In Africa, the Harvest celebration is a time to give thanks to God for the abundance of the harvest and to ask for His blessing on the coming year. It is also a time to celebrate the community and the bonds that are formed through working together to bring in the harvest.