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everything you could want from your village hall is in the best possible shape to be
OTHER CHURCHES NEWS enjoyed by us all.

We’ll keep you posted here in the parish magazine as well as on the community
BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH website and general posters as to what we can do and what is available for you
to join in with as things progress and although we will all have to learn how to live
with covid all around us it does feel like things may really be on the up soon.
Sundays 10.30am Morning Service taken each week by visiting
preachers. In the meantime the hall continues to be open on a daily basis for you to queue
for the village shop, purchase jams and various other things from time to time as
Mondays at 7pm STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting well as to collect your daily papers. As a community we’ve done really well
dealing with the various regulations and the social hardships covid has brought
Tuesdays at 7.30pm Bible Study and Prayer about so let’s hang on in there as we see this through to a point when relative

Chapel Toddler Group. Sadly this group is closed for the foreseeable normality is resumed.
future. Stuart Chorley
Chairman of Briantspuddle Village Hall Trustees
Currently we are able to meet for our Sunday morning services, although they are Contact me on my mobile 07818078191 or by email at schorley30@gmail.com
also shown live on you tube. Our Youth meeting and Bible study are held via
zoom, with others joining us, a number of whom live too far away to ever be able
to join us in person. God has brought good out of the current situation, via
modern technology.

AFFPUDDLE AND TURNERSPUDDLE PARISH

Easter is Here. Jesus is COUNCIL
Alive
How lovely, that after the cold and
darkness of winter, spring is here! The The Parish Council meeting on 10th March was once again held remotely to
days are longer, the sun is getting comply with Government social distancing guidance. Until restrictions around
warmer, and all nature is bursting into movement and public gatherings are lifted, the Parish Council will be holding all
new life. What a joy it is to see the meetings remotely.
lambs frolicking in the fields. I am
always so grateful to live in such a beautiful part of the country, and to be able to
get out into the fields for a walk most days. How hard lock-down has been for West Lulworth Area Operational Plan
people living in towns and cities surrounded by concrete.
The Parish Council previously commented on the plan which aims to prevent the
Most importantly it is Easter, when we remember the death and resurrection of problems experienced last summer when the number of visitors to the area
Jesus. This is the heart of our Christian faith, that Jesus died for us, taking the caused issues with anti-social behaviour and litter, as well as parking and traffic on
penalty for our sin so that we can be forgiven, and that He rose again from the roads across the Purbeck area. The Parish Council asked Dorset Councillor Laura
dead to give us new life in Him. Miller to attend the Parish Council meeting to discuss concerns.
There were many people involved in the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus. One It was reassuring to hear that as well as the operational plan, which will close the
was a man named Malchus. His name is mentioned just once in the Bible, (John Lulworth area to traffic when it reaches capacity, Dorset Council is working with
18:10) although what happened to him is recorded in all four Gospels. Malchus other organisations to increase litter bins and collections and train enforcement
was servant to the High Priest, who was the most important religious leader at the officers for the area who will have body cameras and the power to issue fines.
time. He was ordered to join the soldiers who were going late at night to arrest Parking options are being considered which could help to keep traffic flowing
Jesus. When the soldiers reached the olive grove where Jesus was with His steadily and tow-away zones are to be introduced.

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