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Council Meetings OTHER CHURCHES NEWS

Parish Council meetings are once again taking place in Briantspuddle Village Hall BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
although the larger hall is being used rather than the Jubilee Room, as it is more
suitable for social distancing. The next meeting is due to be held on the 11th
August. Members of the public are welcome to attend and will have an Sundays 10.30am Morning Service taken each week by visiting
opportunity to speak, but may also write to the Clerk at clerk@briantspuddle.info preachers.
to make representations if preferred. Mondays at 7pm STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting, via zoom.
Sue Jones, Chairman Tuesdays at 7.30pm Bible Study and Prayer, via zoom.
Chapel Toddler Group. Toddler Group has reopened and is meeting on
Wednesdays. There are two sessions taking place, one at 9.30am and the second
one at 1.30pm. Advance booking is essential, please contact Suzie on
07962142552
Final restrictions on Sunday Services are expected to be lifted by the time you read
this, and we look forward to everyone being able to join in the singing again. Our
services go out live on you tube.

Fisherman’s Tales
If the Bible contained a story about a dog who was swallowed by a fish, and when
his master caught and opened the fish the dog jumped out barking and fully alive,
critics would scoff and point to it as another example of fictitious and totally
incredible Bible stories. ......

Moscow Radio reported some time ago that a fisherman was fishing on the side of
the Pechora River. His dog was swimming across when it was attacked and
swallowed by a monster pike, six feet long. The fisherman caught the pike and cut
it open; out jumped the dog, barking and unhurt.
The Daily Mail of 31 December 1964, tells of a Russian whaler taking from the
st
stomach of a whale a still living giant squid, twice the size of a man and weighing
4cwt.
Hans Hass records his experience with a fifty foot whale off the Azores, in the
stomach of which were found two sharks, one 10ft and the other 8ft long.

Marshall Jenkins, seaman in a USA whaler, was swallowed by a 20ft whale in the
Mediterranean in 1858 and disgorged almost at once not much the worse. And
James Bartley in a British whaler, operating near the Falkland Islands was
discovered alive in a whale’s stomach when his comrades were cutting it up 24
hours later. Bartley is known to have lived 30 or more years after his experience.
Jonah himself, so far as is known, still holds the record of three days in the belly of a
big fish before being regurgitated onto dry land.

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