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let us have your order by 15 December – we will be making our last trip to Curtis’
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on Wednesday 22 December. OTHER CHURCHES NEWS
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We will once again be selling Christmas Trees and wreaths. Imagine you can walk BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
to get your tree, just like in the movies…… (or have it delivered to your door!)
In 2022, Her Majesty The Queen will become
the first British Monarch to celebrate a Sundays 10.30am Morning Service . Our services also go out live on you tube
Platinum Jubilee, 70 years of service since she Mondays at 7pm STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting, via zoom.
acceded to the throne in 1952. That same
year an unknown photographer took a series Tuesdays at 7.30pm Bible Study and Prayer, meeting in the Manse and also on
of pho xdtographs of the parish. These have zoom.
recently been donated and it seemed fitting
to use these for the 2022 Village Shop Wednesdays at 9.30am Chapel Toddler Group, please contact Suzie on
Calendar. 2022 also marks 20 years since the 07962142552
shop first opened as a community venture 15 December 9.30am Chapel Toddlers Christmas Party
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and we’ve marked the date on the calendar
in anticipation of a celebration. We have Thursday 16 . December 6.30pm Christmas Cafe, Light refreshments, Christmas
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been able to keep the price at £5 so please music and carols.
support us and purchase one.
Sunday 19 December 5.30pm. Carol Service, Christmas readings and carols.
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If I don’t get the opportunity to do so in person, I wish you a very happy Christmas
and thank you for your support of the village shop in 2021. Whether that is as a Everyone is warmly welcomed to these two events.
volunteer or a customer or both. We have been able to maintain a wide range of
fresh produce in the shop, but we can only do that if the community together It’s hard to believe that another year has nearly gone and Christmas will soon be
volunteer to collect and importantly regularly use the shop. We really want it to here. Perhaps for some of you this year, the time has gone more slowly, because
be more than a convenience store for the odd tinned or dried packet that’s of lockdown and the disruption of our usual routines. It has certainly been very
been forgotten. different. We hope that nothing will happen at the last minute to disrupt all our

We would like there always to be a wide range Christmas plans this year.
of fresh produce, fruit and veg, bread and
meat. Not just for those who find it difficult to
go to the supermarket but for all of us. So After Christmas last year a friend very kindly sent me a copy of the following poem,
please as you start to make new year’s which puts another light on the familiar Christmas story. See what you think.
resolutions – please add “use the village shop”
to your list. It really does make a difference. The Innkeeper’s Wife
Make sure you have the AGM written on your We were full to the rafters when they knocked so late,
calendar - Friday 21 January 2022. This will Joseph was anxious – babies don’t wait.
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cover 2 financial years and bring us up to date.
It’s a great opportunity for us to all meet and She smiled through her pain, trusting God had this planned;
recognise the value the shop brings to the I offered our stable and he took her hand.
community. And if you don’t want to come just
to hear the update please come and join us for With so many visitors, how could I know
a glass of Wine and some nibbles it will be a Who would be with us before the dawn’s glow?
good way to start the new year. That across the night skies I would hear angels sing,
And shepherds would come from the hills, chattering?

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