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the Parish Council will request that the Bureau’s services are publicised more
widely in the Parish. It was noted by the Council that other sources of grant
JUNIOR “Why don’t you come and join us at the funding have been sought including Purbeck District Council, Dorset County
CHURCH Family Service on the second Sunday Council as well as Purbeck Town and Parish Councils.

NEWS of every month at 11.00 am”
PCC of Affpuddle
A grant for up to £250 has been approved to PCC of Affpuddle for the purchase
In July at Junior Church and Family of a Communion Chalice for day to day use at Eucharist in the parish church.
Service, we celebrated ‘Sea There is only one Chalice in use at present and there are frequent occasions
Sunday’. Our focus was the story of when two are needed. The new chalice will be identified by engraving as a gift
Jesus calming the storm. For anyone of the Parish and will be used day to day for many years and generations to
who doesn’t know this story, it tells of come. A receipt for the cup will be supplied to the Parish Council in advance of
the time when Jesus and his disciples payment of the grant in September. In making the award the Parish Council
set out to sail across a lake. It was noted that the church accounts for 2017 were in deficit and that no other sources
smooth sailing and Jesus fell asleep. of funding to purchase the chalice could be identified.
However, a terrific storm came up

suddenly and water poured into the
boat. The disciples woke Jesus Briantspuddle Village Hall Committee
because they were terrified that they
The application for a grant of £500 to assist in the provision of improved
identification signs for the Village Hall and the main entrance, with the balance
were going to drown. Jesus told
the wind “Silence!” and the of costs being provided from Village Hall Committee funds, was considered by
waves, “Quiet down!” then the Councillors. It was felt that additional information was needed from Trustees to
lake became calm again. Jesus consider the application fully. A letter detailing the information requested has
asked his disciples “Why can’t you been sent to the VHC and the Parish Council will consider the application again
at its August meeting with the benefit of this additional information. Additional
trust me?”
information requested includes details of the proposed signs and their positioning
This is a very good question and together with the associated quotations. In line with the Council’s Grant Policy
one which the children explored details of the extent to which funding has been sought or secured from other
during the hour before the service. sources has also been requested.
We talked about how we all get
worried in life and what we might
do in such times of anxiety. If we Bladen Valley War Memorial
got into trouble at the seaside or The cleaning of the war memorial will
out in a boat we could call a be completed by the end of the
Lifeguard or even a Lifeboat. It was a chance to be thankful for people who put summer. However, it has been noted
their own lives in danger at sea to save others. Through the actions of others, we
can experience God’s love at work in our lives. We thought about how Jesus is that repair work is also needed to make
always with us and how we can learn to trust him more. Later, we did a painting good the pointing in the joints on the
steps leading up to the war memorial,
activity. Wax resist painting requires an element of trust. First you draw your and patching in the area on one of the
picture using wax crayons. We chose to illustrate sea creatures. Then we painted lettered panels where some damage is
over our pictures with a blue paint wash, trusting that the wax would resist the
paint...sure enough, it did! Our last activity was a ‘Trust’ exercise. Two children evident. A quotation for this work
entered a maze, one agreed to be blindfolded, while the other had the totalling £1,782 has been received and
approved by the Parish Council.

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