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March 2021
ADVERTISING RATES March 2021
for the year 2021 THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS and AFFPUDDLE

(Cheques to be made payable to Bere Regis PCC) with TURNERSPUDDLE
Rates for charitable, community or non-profit organisations are charged at 50% of above.

Full year advertising is based on complete calendar years. Adverts inserted for part Our Our Mission:
years are charged at a pro-rata rate of the full year cost. Full year advertisers are
Vision: To encourage awareness of the
automatically included on both village websites. presence of God through worship
To make
Christ’s
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love To encourage everyone in the
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known in Christian faith through example,
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the world learning and spiritual growth;

Quarter page, full year £98 Quarter page, one month £13 today and To make our churches open and
to live out
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of those in need;
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teaching
To challenge injustice at home and
abroad and to balance our care
for the environment.

A LETTER FROM YOUR ASSOCIATE PRIEST
The Dates for your Diary

Dear Friends
section will return in due course, As I write in the middle of February the signs that Spring is on the way are all
around us. The recent cold spell certainly hasn’t deterred my daffodils in the
once all our clubs, societies and garden from looking ready to bloom at any moment. The sun is shining, and the
temperature is a much balmier 9°C! It doesn’t seem possible that it is now over a
year since we started to worry about the coronavirus. How our lives have
events are back on track. changed in that time. I’m looking forward to a haircut again and the chance for
a walk along the beach. But more important than that, I can’t wait for the
opportunity to give my Mum and Dad a proper hug and hear the grandchildren
Hopefully, it will not be too long laugh and play with Zinnie again in the garden. There is a real longing for things
to change, but also caution that all the hard work of the past year doesn’t
before we return to some kind of disappear in a moment of madness.
In the church we are entering the season of Lent and that too is about longing for
change, either by giving things up that are not really necessary or taking on
normality. something new that will challenge us and hopefully improve us. Lent recalls the
time when Jesus went into the wilderness for 40 days. He had just been baptised
in the River Jordon by his cousin John the Baptist and, before he started his adult
ministry, he entered the desert ‘to be tested’ by Satan, which means the

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