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Christianity is not about ‘do’ this or don’t ‘do’ that, it is about what Jesus has NEWS OF BRIANTSPUDDLE SWIFTS
‘done.’ God loved the world, and this love includes love for me and love for you.
Out of this love, He gave the greatest gift imaginable, His own Son, to enter into
history as our saviour. We are told that the one who believes in Him will receive I am delighted to report that
the free gift of eternal life. This is what Jesus meant when He told Nicodemus that ‘our’ wonderful swifts that
he must be born again. What gives someone right standing before God or makes faithfully return each year to
them a Christian is not reliance on the things they are doing themselves, but the nest boxes at the village
rather a trusting in what Christ has freely done on our behalf. hall, have occupied all five
John Williams boxes this year and every pair
have young. If you are lucky
you may have seen the
youngster’s faces peering out
of the entrance holes.

BERE HEATH METHODIST Once these young swifts
pluck up the courage to
CHAPEL launch themselves out of the
entrance hole, that’s it – they
will be on the wing until they
Well here we are again with “What’s happening in return to us again at the end
August at Bere Heath Chapel” of April next year. Non-stop
Sunday 7 August – Monthly Service at 2pm led by Rev flying, they will not perch, sit
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Gwyneth Owen which will include Holy Communion. on the overhead wires or
Refreshments after Service. land on the ground. When
they leave the nest they fly
Saturday 13 August – Country Fair – Crafts, Bring and to southern Africa – to the
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Buy, Cakes , Tea and Coffee, cold drinks. Might even be Congo, Mozambique and on to the east African coast. Imagine them there in the
some plants. Also activities for Children. This is one of the main fund raisers of the sun while you are eating your Christmas dinner! We now know that’s where they’ll
year for the Chapel which helps pay for Heating , lighting , upkeep. Donations be as Bird A320 from Cambridgeshire was tagged with a geolocator and tracked
will be gratefully received for any of the stalls . Please contact Jackie and Philip there. (2010)
Morgan (Senior Stewards ) on 01929 471339 if you can do so. A good afternoon
out for all the Family. Please do tell your friends and neighbours. But for the moment, every evening the whole group of adult birds made up of
breeding pairs, plus ‘prospectors’ from last year and the year before that, form up
Sunday 4 September - Monthly Service at 2pm. into ‘screaming parties’ flying at phenomenal speed over the colony, showing
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what superb fliers they are, eventually coming in crazily fast to roost in the boxes,
Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 September is the Dorset County Show. hardly appearing to brake at all and each bird shooting straight for their entrance
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If you are Family with baby’s or infants and you are planning on coming to the hole, then the chattering greetings from inside the box. How we will miss them!
Show which is on the Show Ground near Kingston Maurward round about the By the time you read this some of the youngsters may have fledged, and
United Church which is in Dorchester will have a Marquee there where you can amazingly, within a few days, will be on their way south. The parents will follow as
feed , change , relax and older children can do craft activities and its free. Look soon as all their ‘babies’ have left the nest as their job is now complete. And then
out for us on Avenue A (A11 0r A12)which is near the Shopping Mall. comes the long months to wait in anticipation of the first sight of that black sickle-
Have a lovely Summer shaped bird whizzing over the village once again.
Peter Jenner – Lay Worker - Bere Heath Methodist Chapel However please remember that the Common Swift (Apus apus) is now on the Red
List due to a severe decline in numbers. There are less nest sites available as we

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