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December 2020
ADVERTISING RATES December 2020
for the year 2021 THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS and AFFPUDDLE

(Cheques to be made payable to Bere Regis PCC) with TURNERSPUDDLE
Rates for charitable, community or non-profit organisations are charged at 50% of above.

Full year advertising is based on complete calendar years. Adverts inserted for part Our Vision: Our Mission:
years are charged at a pro-rata rate of the full year cost. Full year advertisers are To make Christ’s love To encourage awareness of the
automatically included on both village websites. known in the world today presence of God through worship
and to live out his teaching
Full page, full year £260 Full page, one month £38 music and the arts;

To encourage everyone in the
Half page, full year £160 Half page, one month £22
Christian faith through example,
Third page, full year £120 Third page, one month £16
learning and spiritual growth;

Quarter page, full year £98 Quarter page, one month £13
To make our churches open and
Small-ads, full year £70 Small-ads, one month £11 welcoming to all, and supportive of
those in need;

For all advertising enquiries, contact the Editor, details on inside back cover.
To challenge injustice at home and
abroad and to balance our care for
the environment.

A LETTER FROM YOUR ASSOCIATE PRIEST

Dear friends
My childhood teddy bear comes out for an airing every so often, he usually lives
in a bag on a shelf, but he does make a very good visual aid. He is almost
threadbare – with patches and holes and stuffing falling out, one eye, you get
the picture. He bears the signs of being well loved.
Most of us reading this probably feel a bit like my teddy – we might be a bit
squashed and threadbare in places, but hopefully we’re a little wiser, softer and
less selfish. Loving has worn us into the shape we are. We know that loving isn’t
always easy, but from experience we certainly know its worth living lovingly. If
ever there were a time for sharing the love this is it. As I write we still have no idea
how the next year will pan out because of Covid-19, how and when there will be
a vaccine, how the NHS will cope this winter and to cap it all there are the Brexit
trade negotiations still going on, how will they affect us, and what sort of shape
our country will be in this time next year, who knows. So, sharing the love seems to
be the only thing to do. Christmas is, of course, all about sharing love and good
will.
We celebrate Christmas because God shared with us his son Jesus, born to Mary
and Joseph in an ordinary stable in Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago because he

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