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BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
BERE REGIS AND DISTRICT

Sundays 10.30am Morning Service taken each week by visiting TWINNING ASSOCIATION
preachers.
Mondays at 7pm STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting We will be holding a card night (Whist Drive) on
Tuesdays at 9.15am (during term time) Chapel Toddlers Group Friday 23 March in the old Sports Club, North
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Tuesdays at 7.30pm Bible Study and Prayer Street, Bere Regis, starting at 7.30 p.m. We will
supply nibbles, a raffle and prizes for the winning

lady and gentleman. Cost will be £4.00 per person.
On Sunday March 4 at 10.30am we will be having a baptismal service, when at If you would like to join us for a fun evening, please
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least three of our members will be making a public confession of their faith in the
Lord Jesus by being baptised by full immersion. Some readers may wonder why contact Sue Stone on 01929
we baptise in this way, and the simplest answer is that this is the way that Jesus 472083.
was baptised. In the Bible we read that “John the Baptist came ...preaching a
baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. The whole Judean countryside, We will be hosting our Twinning
and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were friends from Cerences in Bere
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baptised by him in the Jordan River. .....At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Regis from 21 September to
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Galilee and was baptised by John in the Jordan. As Jesus was coming up out of 23 September. Look out for
the water, He saw heaven open and the Spirit descending on Him like a dove. more information in the
And a voice came from heaven: “You are My Son whom I love; with You I am well coming months.
pleased.” (Mark 1:4-5, & 9-11) Just before Jesus returned to heaven after His If you are interested in joining
resurrection He instructed His disciples , “Go and make disciples of all nations,
baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” the Twinning Association
please email Jackie Ahern at
Matthew 28:19. This service will be a very joyful occasion and everyone is very jackie.ahern@hotmail.co.uk for further information.
welcome.

The Miracle of the Thrown Away Bible
A pastor, travelling one day in the Soviet Union, sat in a compartment with just
one other passenger. The two men started chatting and soon were talking about
religion. The pastor listened patiently as the other man extolled the logic of
atheism and criticised religious belief. The pastor expressed his own views, even
taking out his Bible and citing passages from it. But the atheist was unconvinced.
As the futility of the conversation became clear, the two men lapsed into silence.

The pastor left the compartment for a few minutes, leaving his Bible on the seat.
When he returned he saw his Bible was missing. The other man was just closing
the window. He had thrown the Bible out, so that neither the pastor nor anyone
else would be able to read such rubbish again. There was nothing the pastor
could do. The journey continued in stony silence.
A few months later, a stranger called to see the pastor. It was a man from a
neighbouring village, and he announced quite bluntly that he wanted to be 839209

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