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CHURCH AND VILLAGE THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS and AFFPUDDLE

ACTIVITIES, SOCIETIES, CLUBS, ASSOCIATIONS and CONTACTS with TURNERSPUDDLE

Our Our Mission:
Association Contact Tel Address E-mail Meetings/Info Vision: To encourage awareness of the
To make presence of God through worship
Bere Regis Scout Liz Teather 01929 lizteather@hot Wednesdays 6 - 7 pm Christ’s music and the arts;
Group (Beavers) 471216 mail.com 5¾ - 8 years love
Scout Hut, Elder Road To encourage everyone in the
known in Christian faith through example,
Bere Regis Scout Neal Unitt- 01929 Mondays 7.30 - 9 pm the world learning and spiritual growth;
Group (Scouts) Jones 472273 10½ or 11 to 14 years
Scout Hut, Elder Road today and To make our churches open and
General or group 01305 to live out
enquiries Chris Gall 772634 welcoming to all, and supportive
his of those in need;
Bere Regis Scout Kate Willis 01929 Thursdays 6.30 - 8 pm
Group (Cubs) 472787 8– 10½ or 11 years teaching
Scout Hut, Elder Road To challenge injustice at home and
abroad and to balance our care
Kingsbere Explorer Helen Unitt- 01929 Tuesdays 7.30 pm-9.30 pm. for the environment.
Scout Unit Jones 472273 14-18 years, male and
female. Scout Hut, Elder
Road
LETTER FROM OUR VICAR
Briantspuddle Book Angie Talbot 472483 19 Bladen Valley angie@ptalbot. 2nd Saturday 10 - 12 noon
Let plus.com Briantspuddle Village Hall,
in conjunction with Coffee
Shop Dear friends
Chapel Toddlers Suzie Gee 472484 Rose Cottage, Butt suziegtitus3v4@ Tuesdays - 9.15 a.m. - Happy New Year! ‘Well he’s a bit ahead of the game’ I hear you say, and that
Group Land talktalk.net 11.30 a.m. at the
Congregational Chapel, might be a first for the Church of England! But I mean Happy New Church Year,
Butt Lane as we begin our new church calendar on Advent Sunday, 27 November.
th
Cyril Wood Court 1st Saturday of every
Monthly Coffee Stop month from 10.00 - 12.00 ‘Advent’ means ‘coming’ and is a season of expectation and preparation as we
prepare for the coming of Jesus. A season to prepare both for the annual
celebration of Jesus’ first coming, as a babe in Bethlehem; and also a season to
Village Hall Alison Bennett 472023 popinplace@g prepare for his final advent, or coming, at the end of time. That’s a strange and
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difficult combination, and one which is often crowded out by the business of
Dorset Councillor Peter Wharf 472246 The Old Vicarage peterwharf@ho December, as we manically prepare for all that has to be done for increasingly
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pressurised celebrations of Christmas. Its hard to find time to prepare for Christmas
spiritually, when we are so consumed with preparing for it physically.
Kingsbere Quilters Mrs Diane 472331 10 Boswell’s Close Monthly Scout Hut
Edmonds BH20 7JE 1st Wednesday 9.30 am - The Early Church had a very simple Advent Prayer ‘Maranatha – Our Lord,
12.30p.m. come’ (1 Corinthians 16:22). My prayer is that however busy we might become in
this coming month we might find a little time to quietly pray and reflect on this
Milborne St Andrew Secretary: Sue 01258 Lane End, Milborne Msa.allotments A new allotment site adjacent to
Allotment Society Gould (28 837575 St Andrew. @yahoo.co.uk the Sports Club in the village, simple prayer, ‘Maranatha – Our Lord, come’ every day. You might find it helpful
whole plot £30, half plot £20 per
Stileham Bank, year.
MSA DT11 0LE) to light a candle; maybe if you have one, an Advent Candle or Advent Wreath.

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