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December 2018                                                                       December 2018

                                                                                            BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH


                                                                                            Sundays 10.30am  Morning Service  taken each week by  visiting
                                                                                            preachers.
                                                                                            Mondays at 7pm  STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting
                                                                                            Tuesdays at 9.15am (during term time)  Chapel Toddler Group
                                                                                            Tuesdays at 7.30pm  Bible Study and Prayer

                                                                                            On  Sunday  2   December    at  10.30am  we  will  again  be  having  a  baptismal
                                                                                                        nd
                                                                                            service.  Two of our members will be making this public confession of their faith in
                                                                                            Jesus, so fulfilling His command to ‘believe and be baptised’. These services are
                                                                                            always  very  joyful  occasions,  visitors  are  most  welcome.    Please  join  us  for  our
                                                                                            Christmas services too.
                                                                                            Christmas Carol Service:  16  December at 6.30pm
                                                                                                                    th
                                                                                            Christmas Day : Short Family Service at 10.30am

                                                                                            The Perfect Place

                                                                                            The  pains  are  getting  stronger  all  the
                                                                                            time, I am cold, cold and tired.
                                                                                            I  stretch  myself  and  arch  to  ease  my
                                                                                            back,  but  it’s  impossible  to  get
                                                                                            comfortable.

                                                                                            Joseph looks so tired.  He’s afraid.
                                                                                            Afraid that I shall give birth to this baby
                                                                                            while I’m still on the donkey.
                                                                                            But I know You have a plan, Lord.

                                                                                            Poor Joseph, poor dear Joseph.
                                                                                            We’ve  only  known  each  other  a  short
                                                                                            time, and I seem to have brought him
                                                                                            nothing but grief.
                                                                                            No one else believed me, Joseph. They insist this child belongs to another man.
                                                                                             Together we have suffered strife of tongues. The gossips had their day.

                                                                                            Is my little one determined to be born tonight.
                                                                                            Everything is waiting at home, the crib Joseph has carved ...the soft linen I have
                                                                                            put ready.

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