Harvest in the city

To Lambeth Palace for an early evening garden party, and a follow-up to the Battersea to the Barrier meeting that was hosted at the Palace earlier in the year.

Battersea to the Barrier was about the huge changes taking place all along the south bank of the river and the church's involvement in these communities. Tonight's event was called 'Harvest in the City: a celebration of city life' and the overall theme was: how do we create a good city for all?

We were treated to drinks and canapes in the splendour of the Archbishop's 'garden' (more like what you and I would call a park).

We were entertained by musicians from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and there was the chance to meet all sorts of interesting people, all with one thing in common: to create a good city for all.

St James's parish is one of the nineteen riverside parishes from Battersea to the Thames Barrier and its good for us to think of what can do to make Bermondsey the best possible place it can be for everyone who lives there.

We want to work with everyone who wants to build a Good Bermondsey For All. And we believe that knowing Jesus Christ who came to give us 'life in all its fulness' must be a big part of that.

So may God bless London, and may God bless Bermondsey.

Nightime view from outside Lambeth Palace, waiting for the C10 back to Bermondsey