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October 2019 October 2019

I have said before that our God is a God of surprises. Certainly I have been
CHURCH AND VILLAGE surprised at what He has brought my way in the past couple of years; I expect
you have been surprised at some things too. To be fair, we don’t all always relish
ACTIVITIES, SOCIETIES, CLUBS, ASSOCIATIONS and CONTACTS
surprises or change but if we can see them as God-given opportunities for growth
it helps. Personally, I find it life giving and exciting to see that God is always at
work and on the move and I eagerly look forward to seeing what he has in store
Association Contact Tel Address E-mail Meetings/Info for us in the months to come.
With every blessing,
Rev Carol
Mothers’ Union Nancy Gibson 472105 15 White Lovington NancyEGibson Monthly. Turberville Court
BH20 7NF @msn.com 1st Wednesday. 2.00 p.m.
Mobile Library Dorset County 01305 dorchestermob Alternate fortnights Car
Council 224440 ilelibrary@dorse park THE BISHOP’S LETTER
tcc.gov.uk Mondays 9.20- 9.50
Fridays 10.50 - 12.15
Remembering our future
Neighbour Car Brenda House 01929 stockleyfarmpa Community run transport
Scheme 471255 rtners@gmail.c option
om
'Little Imber on the down; seven miles from
Pop in Place Alison Bennett 472023 3 Rye Hill Close popinplace@g Weekly. Drax Hall any town'. Like its better-known counterpart in
BH20 7LU mail.com Monday and Friday Dorset, Tyneham, the ‘lost’ village of Imber
mornings
10.00 - 12.00 was permanently evacuated in 1943, to
provide a training area for US troops
Purbeck District Peter Wharf 472246 The Old Vicarage peterwharf@ho Monthly surgery. Turberville
Councillor West Street tmail.com Court, Communal Lounge preparing for the allied invasion of Europe:
1st Saturday @ 9.30—10.00 one community’s quiet sacrifice for the war
effort. Deserted and overgrown, today Imber is a kind of ghost village, about as
Bere Regis Pre-School 471334 Southbrook preschool@ber Providing care and education
‘Pebbles’ Bere Regis eregis.dorset.sc for children from 2 to 8 years, deep into Salisbury Plain as it is possible to be.
including breakfast club from
BH20 7DB h.uk 7.45 a.m. and after-school club
until 5 p.m. Adapted as a stage set for army manoeuvres, with the well-preserved parish
church of St Giles as its centrepiece, Imber has also become something of a
Rotary Club of David King 01929 Hyde Woods, Hyde david.king@gb
Wareham 471087 Wareham, BH20 7NT pltd.co.uk pilgrimage site for thousands of visitors who flock there during the twenty days
www.wareham
rotary.co.uk each year access is granted. What draws them in such numbers? Abandoned
places retain a unique fascination and Imber is, for many, a potent symbol of lost
Salt and Pepper Lunch Brenda House 471255 stockleyfarmpa Monthly, Scout Hut, 3rd community - what the writer Georgina Boyes called ‘the imagined village’. In this
Club rtners@gmail.c Thursday. 12.30p.m.
om idealised and deeply nostalgic sense of place, the Anglican Church plays an
almost iconic role – when the bells of St Giles toll, we are recalled to a longed-for
Table Tennis for Adults Pauline Pitfield 01258 Mondays 7.00 to 9.00 pm
839123 common life.
The loss of place is perhaps the most powerful motive in modern social and
Twinning Association Jackie Ahern 07876 Jackie.ahern@hot Meetings and events
577012 mal.co.uk arranged as and when. political life. Globally, more people than ever before are uprooted from their
home, by war and disaster; across the United Kingdom we are deeply unsettled
and – whatever our allegiances - view the coming months with profound
W.I. (Bere Regis) Mrs Dian Pitts 471322 pitts.dian Monthly, Bere Regis Sports
@gmail.com Club concern. Like the Psalmist, who writes ‘in time of national humiliation’ that ‘we do
3rd Wednesday @ 7.30 pm not see our emblems’ – the symbols of our belonging - as believers we are called
Woodbury Hill Singers Mrs Kath Jeeves 471175 10 Turberville Court Weekly Turberville Court by God to remember our future. Called back to the Lord’s faithful provision in
Mondays @ 2.00 p.m.
former generations and forward in hope to the place assured for us – won for us –
in the Lord Jesus.

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