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Gleaners' Harvest is a modern-day version of an old Hebrew practice called gleaning. It was commanded to the Israelites in Leviticus 19:9-10:
In our largely urbanized culture, most people regularly "harvest" their food from a grocery store. For individuals and families who cannot afford to purchase enough food, local food banks provide items of food at no cost.
Gleaners' Harvest helps by organizing neighbors to provide items of non-perishable food for their food-insecure neighbors. It works like this: whenever individuals who are called growers do their regular grocery shopping, they purchase a few extra items, or gleanings. These gleanings are collected, stored and delivered to a local food bank for distribution to neighbors in need.
Gleaners' Harvest has two components, both fulfilling this mission in different ways.
When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must not pick your vineyard bare, and you must not gather up the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and the resident foreigner. I am the Lord your God.
Congregational Harvest
The Congregational Harvest is a program that helps churches organize their members to purchase a few extra items of food, or gleanings, when they do their regular grocery shopping. These gleanings are brought to worship as part of one's offering to God, stored, and delivered to a local food bank by congregational volunteers.
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