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December 2019 December 2019

DATES FOR
THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS and AFFPUDDLE
with TURNERSPUDDLE
YOUR DIARY

2019 Our Vision: Our Mission:
To make Christ’s love To encourage awareness of the
Key: FG-Floral Group, AL-Autumn Leaves, TA– Twinning, WI-Women’s known in the world today presence of God through worship
Institute, PiP-Pop in Place, GC-Gardening Club and to live out his teaching music and the arts;

To encourage everyone in the
December Christian faith through example,
learning and spiritual growth;
3rd GC: Charles Darwin and his famous plants, Caradoc Doy 7.30pm
To make our churches open and
FG: Christmas Lunch welcoming to all, and supportive of
those in need;

11th AL: Christmas Afternoon Entertainment and Singing
To challenge injustice at home and
abroad and to balance our care for
5th Pop in Performers Christmas Show
the environment.
6th Pop in Performers Christmas Show
7th Pop in Performers Christmas Show
A LETTER FROM YOUR ASSOCIATE PRIEST
16th Pop in Place Community Christmas Party 12.00 -4.00
A necessary journey
19th WI: Christmas Festivities As you may have previously read, before our last parishes in Hampshire, Graham
and I spent four years living in a village called Upton Magna to the east of
Shrewsbury. In December 2010 we were gripped in the first snows of a winter that
seemed to go on forever. Although it looked beautiful, I’m not really sure I would
like a repeat performance this year! Every time we needed to go somewhere, we
had to ask ourselves, is this journey necessary? Will we get there safely? Is it worth
taking the risk? Graham and I decided it was worth going to greet our newborn
Grandson on the 16 December, Zachary had arrived a little earlier than planned
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and there was a lull in the snow so off we went to Salisbury. What a beautiful sight
greeted us - very proud and contented, if exhausted, parents, and one bundle of
joy that seemed so small and delicate. Had his mother really been that small? To
look at Zachary now, at nearly nine years old, it’s hard to believe he could ever
have been so small! Perhaps it was the weather that made him seem even more
vulnerable. Only too soon we had to say goodbye and start our next journey

Church website: www.bereregiswith affpuddle.org.uk

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