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brought human kindness and thoughtfulness to the front as we as a community
have looked out for one another and as such it’s a pleasure to be a part of this OTHER CHURCHES NEWS
place.
BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Day to day we still have issues to resolve and plans to make and we the trustees of
the village hall are doing everything within our power to bring some form of festive
cheer to the parish. Everything is subject to current regulations, a topic used nearly Sundays 10.30am Morning Service taken each week by visiting
as much as the weather in our regular conversations these days.
preachers.
All things being equal and
permissible the village hall Mondays at 7pm STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting
intends to put on its annual Tuesdays at 7.30pm Bible Study and Prayer
Christmas Fayre albeit with some
variations. The Fayre will take Toddler Group has had to cease again because of the further lockdown.
place between 11am and 3pm
on the 6 December. The stalls Our Sunday morning service is shown live on You Tube. Our Youth
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will be outside this year selling meeting and Bible study are held via zoom, with others joining us, a
items from knitted gifts to number of whom live too far away to ever be able to join us in person.
Christmas trees with the God has brought good out of the current situation, via modern
opportunity to order your technology.
Christmas meat from the shop and a stall where you’ll be able to order a delivery
of logs to warm your hearth as you listen to the Queens speech.
If the current lockdown restrictions end on December 2 as planned, then our
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The village hall café will be providing turkey rolls with stuffing and cranberry sauce, Sunday services will restart with attendance at the Church on 6 December. Our
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mulled wine, tea coffee and cake. There will be strict track and trace procedures ‘Carol Service’ will be held on Sunday 20 December at 10.30am. It will be difficult
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in place and stall holders and members of the public will be asked to wear face to have a ‘Carol’ Service if we cannot sing the carols, but we still intend to
coverings as they enter the car park from the road and to keep them on at all celebrate the birth of Jesus, and will find ways to make it a joyful and fulfilling
times other than when seated in the main hall and being served at your tables. All occasion as we usually do.
tables sanitised and chair covers replaced between each and every use and
those working in the kitchen and serving you will also be wearing gloves and using
face coverings. The Waiting Time
There will be a covid19 protocol in place along the same lines as you are currently There have always been people waiting ...... maybe for a house to live in, or a
used to with additional hand sanitiser at entrances and exits. Please come along baby to be born. Maybe for the result of a medical test, or for news from family
and join us if you feel comfortable doing so and please be extra considerate to living far away. And this year who would have thought that we would be waiting
others around you maintaining social distancing from those not in your specific for ‘lockdown’ to end.
group. We are hoping contrary to
my comments last month that We’ve all experienced it. It can be, and is, a trying time. And as we wait we ask
Santa will be able to find the time questions. Why and how has this pandemic happened? Why can’t we visit our
to meet with children and loved ones? Why is the world in such a mess? Why do some people randomly kill
parents in the grotto “virtually”. other people? What causes such awful things to happen? Does anyone care? Is
anyone in control?
Providing the connection with the
North Pole is good he is intending There is Someone in control, but He does not use His power in the way that men
to be able to zoom into the use force. He has supreme authority, but He rules by love, and He proved it by
grotto and share some Christmas becoming one of us. That is what we remember at this time of waiting and then
joy. He is being very careful to celebration of Christmas, that Jesus was born as a baby, in just the same way that

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