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October 2022 October 2022

DATES FOR THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS and AFFPUDDLE

YOUR DIARY with TURNERSPUDDLE

Our Mission:
2022 Our To encourage awareness of the
Vision:

Floral Group Autumn Leaves Communibus Women’s Institute To make presence of God through worship
Christ’s music and the arts;
Salt and Pepper Club Pop in Place Twinning Gardening Club love To encourage everyone in the
known in Christian faith through example,
the world learning and spiritual growth;
today and
December To make our churches open and
to live out welcoming to all, and supportive
1st David Senior - Dorset Air Ambulance his of those in need;
teaching
To challenge injustice at home and
14th Salisbury Christmas Shopping abroad and to balance our care
for the environment.
SP 15th Salt and Pepper Club
LETTER FROM OUR ASSOCIATE PRIEST
15/16/17 Christmas Shows - Thu-6pm, Fri-7pm, Sat-2pm
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Dear friends
21st Christmas Lights with Fish and Chip supper - leave at
5.30pm I was out cycling last Saturday – not for the cancelled ‘Tour of Britain’ but for the
Dorset Historic Churches Trust ‘Ride and Stride’. From Bere Regis church I cycled
23rd Christmas Fun Morning. All welcome 10-12 to other churches, passing Turnerspuddle, to Affpuddle, Tolpuddle,
Athelhampton, Puddletown, Tincleton, Woodsford, Crossways, Moreton and
Wool.
All of them special and different in their own ways, most very old, but one very
new – Crossways is built within a school site and is a very modern building.
Tolpuddle offer Airbnb accommodation which is a very interesting thought.
Athelhampton is now used by a Greek Orthodox congregation. I got to see the
lovely Whistler windows inside Moreton church this year. I was powered by lots of
cake that was on offer at some of my stops and even found a few with necessary
facilities!
It’s an interesting way to spend a few hours, avoiding main roads and therefore
not too much traffic, crossing many streams – quite probably the same one
several times, and crossing the railway line, both by bridge and, always more
scary, by road crossing! As I took this journey my thoughts were with our late

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