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OTHER CHURCHES NEWS
BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Sundays 10.30am Morning Service, Taken by visiting preachers, or our full time
Youth Worker, John Williams.
Our services also go out live on you tube
Mondays at 7pm STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting, via zoom.
Tuesdays at 7.30pm Bible Study and Prayer, meeting on zoom.
Wednesdays at 9.30am Chapel Toddler Group, contact Suzie on 0796214255
A friend and I recently had the privilege to sing a duet at a funeral. It was the
familiar Psalm 23, “The Lord’s my Shepherd,” I think this is the most well known
Psalm in the Bible, and the words are a comfort to us at any time, but especially
when we suffer a bereavement. The psalm assures us that God is with us. “Even
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death You are with me, Your
rod and staff comfort me.”
There are 150 Psalms in
the Bible, Psalm 117 is
the shortest chapter in
the Bible with just two
verses, Psalm 119 is the
longest chapter with 176
verses. Psalm 118 is the
centre chapter of the
Bible, and the centre
verse in the Bible is Psalm
118 verse 8. In the Bible
there are 594 chapters
before Psalm 118, and
594 chapters after Psalm
118, that is a total of 1188
chapters. So what does
Psalm118: 8, the centre
verse in the Bible say to us? “ It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence
in man.”
As we look around at the world, and at all that is going on, especially in Ukraine,
how appropriate that verse seems. Yet God is at work in Ukraine. A recent report
from a Pastor says that the churches are packed to capacity as people seek God
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cheeses, ¼ Sainsbury’s ambient (that’s non perishables – every day is a school
day ) and ¼ “other” including the newspapers.
The greatest achievement has to
be in the number and mix of
the volunteers involved. We
have firstly been thrilled to see
some of those who had to step
down due to COVID
restrictions come back and
pick up their old or new roles.
We’ve also added new
volunteers, some who have
lived in the parish for a while
and some who have moved in
more recently. It really is a
great way to meet people.
There are currently circa 40
people involved in everything
from placing orders and collecting stock and keeping the shop open 7 days a
week. We are looking forward to celebrating the contribution the shop makes at
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our AGM on the 29 April at 7.00pm in the Village hall. All are welcome – We’d
love to see you there.
We are grateful to the Village Hall committee to their continued support. We were
using the hallway and lobby area through out 2021 to enable us to maintain the
oneway system and COVID safe access to the shop. We were also thrilled to be
able to open the Christmas “Pop Up” shop in the Jubilee room once again.
Thanks to the Community group who moved Saturday Coffee Shop to the Hall
during December. It was great to be able to offer the range of Christmas gifts and
cards and the Vegetable stall in the week leading up to Christmas was well
supported.
As a community benefit society the shop is run for the benefit of our parish in 3
ways.
1. For the benefit of those who use the shop.
It is important to us that the shop is not just for the forgotten tin of beans or
because you’ve run out of milk, but to provide the means to buy a fresh and
healthy diet from within the village. Of course most of us will need to use the
Supermarkets and shops in town but for those that can’t or don’t want to travel
into town it’s great that we can provide the wide range we do. I believe our fresh
fruit and veg is often better quality than the supermarkets too. The shop also plays
an important role in providing a place to go and meet people, to share good
news or bad.
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