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May 2019 May 2019

THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS and AFFPUDDLE

DATES FOR
with TURNERSPUDDLE
YOUR DIARY
Our Vision: Our Mission:
2019 To make Christ’s love To encourage awareness of the
known in the world today presence of God through worship
and to live out his teaching music and the arts;
15th PiP: Children in Need, Lower Hall 10.00-12.00

To encourage everyone in the
20th WI: Christmas Craft
Christian faith through example,
learning and spiritual growth;
December
To make our churches open and
3rd GC: Charles Darwin and his famous plants, Caradoc Doy 7.30pm welcoming to all, and supportive of
those in need;

FG: Christmas Lunch To challenge injustice at home and
abroad and to balance our care for
11th AL: Christmas Afternoon Entertainment and Singing the environment.

12th Pop in Performers Christmas Show

13th Pop in Performers Christmas Show A LETTER FROM YOUR RECTOR

14th Pop in Performers Christmas Show Moving Forward
In previous articles for the parish magazine I was privileged to be able to
16th Pop in Place Community Christmas Party 12.00 -4.00
introduce myself, to explain the process of the joining together of the three
parishes as we were waiting for Bishop Karen to inaugurate the Benefice of West
19th WI: Christmas Festivities Purbeck and I also looked at some of the teething problems that a new benefice
can encounter when it initially gets going. This month, as things are progressing
and questions naturally arise, I’d like to take the opportunity to keep you up to
date with where we are at and to clarify some of the things that pertain to the
structures of our benefice; a sub-title for this article would be ‘B is for Benefice’
It has been a very busy few months in church life with significant changes having
taken place; namely the Benefice of West Purbeck has come into being and, as
you know, I am the first incumbent of the benefice. So, the first thing to say about
this is that because I am licensed as the incumbent we are not in vacancy, even
though the plan is (see below) to appoint a new, additional, priest colleague later
in the year. You may be familiar perhaps with the term ‘interregnum’ but this isn’t
used any longer. The correct term now, if it applies, and in our case it doesn’t, is

Church website: www.bereregiswith affpuddle.org.uk

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