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October 2018 October 2018

THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS and
DATES FOR AFFPUDDLE with TURNERSPUDDLE

YOUR DIARY Reverend Canon Charles Masheder
The Vicarage, West Street, Bere Regis,

2018 BH20 7HQ
01929 472883

14th Pop in Performers Christmas Show 7.00pm
15th Pop in Performers Christmas Show 2.00pm Our Mission:
17th Pop in Place Christmas Party, Lower Hall 2.00pm To encourage awareness of the
19th WI, Christmas Festivities presence of God through worship
music and the arts;

To encourage everyone in the
Christian faith through example,
learning and spiritual growth;
Our Vision:
To make Christ’s love To make our churches open and
known in the world today welcoming to all, and supportive of
and to live out his teaching those in need;

To challenge injustice at home and
A LETTER FROM abroad and to balance our care for
the environment.
YOUR VICAR

My dear Friends,
Well what have you been hearing about the future of our parishes? I thought it
was about time for me to spell out clearly what is likely to happen!! In every village
community that I have known, from my childhood onwards, rumours have had a
wonderful way of circulating what in modern parlance is ‘fake news’....well
sometimes it is just only a little off-beat.

I was appointed in 2015 to a new role as Priest-in-Charge of the two parishes as
what is called ‘House-for-Duty Priest’ and expected to ‘work’ Sundays and two
days a week. That means my ‘payment’ is the use of the beautiful house called
The Vicarage but apart from that, there is no financial ‘payment’. I have found
such part-time arrangement impossible having worked full-time for so many years
but I also uncovered the reality that it wouldn’t probably work for anyone.

The Proposal, supported by both our PCCs is that our two parishes will be linked

Church website: www.bereregiswith affpuddle.org.uk

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