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WELDMAR OTHER CHURCHES NEWS
HOSPICECARE
BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Weldmar Hospicecare launch ‘Make A Will Month’, offering a Sundays 10.30am Morning Service taken each week by visiting
preachers.
free Will writing service during October
Mondays at 7pm STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting
Weldmar Hospicecare has launched their first ‘Make A Will Month’, taking place
this October, where local people can take advantage of a free Will writing service Tuesdays at 9.15am (during term time) Chapel Toddlers Group
with a number of local solicitors.
Tuesdays at 7.30pm Bible Study and Prayer
It’s estimated that just over half of all adults in the UK do not have a Will, which
would ensure their money and property goes to the right people, and saves Well, Summer is officially over and we are now into Autumn. How quickly time has
additional stress for the family at a difficult time. gone, the children will soon be back at school, and memories of the short heat
wave and the longer spells of rain are fading! But this is also the time when we
Selected local branches of Kitson & Trotman, Blanchards Bailey, Porter Dodson, think about the harvest, and our village churches will be celebrating Harvest
Humphries Kirk, and Battens will be offering the free service at appointments Festival either this month or in early October. Our own Harvest Thanksgiving will be
during October, with a suggested on September 22 at 10.30am and you are warmly welcomed to join us on that
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donation to Weldmar Hospicecare from day. The gifts of produce, tins and packets etc. will be given to the Bournemouth
anyone taking up the offer in return. Salvation Army.
Sarah Balchin is Weldmar’s Legacy There are so many things to thank God for at Harvest time other than food –
Fundraiser, and says, “Having a Will is homes, clothes, medical services, but especially water, even when it seems to rain
really important, and can provide peace too much!
of mind at the most difficult time. We are
delighted that a number of local solicitors When the weather is hot we long for a cool
have come on board and we thank them refreshing drink, and we wait for rain to water
for giving their time to this important the gardens and give renewed life to the
campaign, so that we can encourage plants. Palm trees grow in very dry places. They
more people to write their Will”. have longitudinal fibres which give them
immense strength. They may bend severely
Make A Will Month coincides with the launch of a campaign by the charity to get under pressure, but they don’t break. The Bible
more people to consider leaving a gift in their Will to Weldmar Hospicecare. Gifts says that those who know their God will ‘flourish
left in Wills directly contributes to the care of one in three patients in the last year like a palm tree, .... they will still bear fruit, even
of life. in old age. They will stay fresh and green,
proclaiming “The Lord is upright, He is my rock.”
With demand on services increasing by a predicted 25% over the next five years, ‘ (Psalm 92:12-15) What is the palm tree’s
leaving a gift in your Will now will ensure we are there for anyone who needs end secret? It’s the tap root that goes down and
of life care in the future.
down until it finds water. It’s the same with
To find out which solicitor is offering the service in your area, and to make an people. If our roots go down into the living
appointment, please visit the Weldmar Hospicecare website. water Jesus gives, we can survive and even
flourish in the most hostile conditions – and
produce a harvest of fruit.
What sort of fruit is God looking for in our lives? He gives us a list in Galatians 5: 22-

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