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OTHER CHURCHES NEWS BRIANTSPUDDLE AND AFFPUDDLE

NEWS
BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

VILLAGE HALL NEWS
Sundays 10.30am Morning Service taken each week by
visiting preachers. Well as I sit down to write this it’s still December, we
have a vaccine being distributed and we have a
Mondays at 7pm STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting turkey on order. My guess is the turkey will arrive first.
But there does at last seem to be some light at the
Tuesdays at 7.30pm Bible Study and Prayer
end of a very long tunnel, let’s hope so.
Chapel Toddler Group has restarted and now meets on Wednesday afternoons I want to take this opportunity to thank all my trustees for the hard work they’ve
between 1pm and 3pm during term time. All Mums and children are very
welcome. Those intending to come must book in advance for each session. put in this year ensuring that the village hall has been able to stand up and play
it’s part in a year the like of which we have never seen before. The story of 2020
Please contact Suzie Gee on 07962142552. There is no charge.
would have been so different in Briantspuddle if you hadn’t have embraced so
Currently we are able to meet again for our Sunday morning services, although it is many huge changes from how things have been in previous years. Similarities with
also shown live on you tube. Our Youth meeting and Bible study are held via the war years and various other events in our history have been made but
zoom, with others joining us, a number of whom live too far away to ever be able genuinely last year was a year like no other.
to join us in person. God has brought good out of the current situation, via
The hall was very pleased to be able to offer its facilities to the Bere Regis surgery
modern technology.
to carry out some of their flu vaccinations and stands ready should they need it
At the start of this New Year I have an unusual topic for you – termites! These little again to help with covid vaccines this year. Since March the hall has been open
creatures are unknown to us in this country, needing warmer climes, yet they are every day to allow people safe transit to the
very fascinating and can teach us lessons from their way of life. village shop which has meant that the vast

majority of the village have been able to
Termites are tiny insects as little as 3-5 millimetres long, yet they perform some safely enter and exit the shop without risk of
wonderful feats. breaking social distancing measures and
In tropical countries termites build huge ‘castles’ up to nine metres (30 feet) high. more importantly as the shop stepped up to
These nests are made of mud which the tiny insects stick together with their saliva. the challenge of what it stocked it has meant
There is a network of tunnels that nobody has had to leave the village for
inside which provides ‘air anything. You can now live on what the shop

conditioning’ for the colony, stocks. Many thanks to them for the various
which may contain several donations they have made to the village hall
million insects. Australian over the last year.
termites build mud towers that I know 2020 was a very hard year but I can
are thin and wide, with the honestly say it was and is a privilege and a joy
narrow edge facing the midday to be there, the way everyone in the village
sun. This means that during the has responded to each other throughout the
midday heat, less sunshine falls pandemic, for me anyway, has re-established
on the nest, but in the morning my faith in mankind. And, now we’ve put
and evening sunlight falls on the away the decorations reminding us that it
wide side, providing warmth
when it is needed.
Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle website: www.briantspuddle.info

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