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THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS and AFFPUDDLE

with TURNERSPUDDLE

Our Our Mission:
Vision: To encourage awareness of the
To make presence of God through worship
Christ’s music and the arts;
love To encourage everyone in the
known in Christian faith through example,

the world learning and spiritual growth;
today and To make our churches open and
to live out welcoming to all, and supportive
his of those in need;
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 this, we are still experiencing the unpredictable April weather. We have

had some glorious mornings recently – a combination of frost and sun if you’re up
once all our clubs, societies and and out early enough to enjoy it. One afternoon last week Graham, Zinnie and I
ventured over to Ringstead Bay, when we got out of the car it was trying to snow,
events are back on track. ten minutes later down on the beach we had beautiful sunshine, Zinnie went for a
paddle, but looking past the cruise ships to Portland you could see something else
brewing! Zinnie and I left Graham to walk up to the top car park, where Graham
Hopefully, it will not be too long would meet us in the car. By the time we got up there we were in the middle of a
blizzard and you could hardly see a cruise ship let alone Portland. Then as quickly
as it had arrived, the snow was gone, and the sun came out again!
before we return to some kind of It’s like this season that we are going through, we get glimpses of sunshine – the

rollout of the vaccine, the easing of restrictions, the chance to see loved ones –
normality. ok, so you have to wrap up warm! Then we get plunged into a storm – the
possibility of an outbreak of Covid somewhere in the country, the news of more
violence on the streets, jobs lost. These storms will hopefully pass, but of course
some storms stay with us. On Tuesday 6 April we received the sad news that
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Revd Carol Langford had died after her long illness. Our thoughts and prayers are

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