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April 2018 April 2018

THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS and

DATES FOR AFFPUDDLE with TURNERSPUDDLE

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

BH20 7HQ
2018 01929 472883

December
Our Mission:
5th Mothers’ Union Christmas Party 2.00 p.m.
To encourage awareness of the
11th Floral Group Christmas Lunch, Athelhampton
presence of God through worship
12th Autumn Leaves, Christmas Afternoon
music and the arts;
14th Pop in Performers Christmas Show 7.00pm
15th Pop in Performers Christmas Show 2.00pm To encourage everyone in the
17th Pop in Place Christmas Party, Lower Hall 2.00pm Christian faith through example,
learning and spiritual growth;
19th WI, Christmas Festivities 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;

ADVERTISING RATES To challenge injustice at home and
A LETTER FROM abroad and to balance our care for
for the year 2018 the environment.
YOUR VICAR
(Cheques to be made payable to Bere Regis PCC)
Rates for charitable, community or non-profit organisations are charged at 50% of above.
My dear Friends,
Full year advertising is based on complete calendar years. Adverts inserted for part
Which is your favourite season of the year? I have often asked children that
years are charged at a pro-rata rate of the full year cost. Full year advertisers are
question and got the answer of winter, then with people in their 20s to their 40s it is
automatically included on both village websites. frequently autumn but later in life we usually find the greatest joy in Spring. Well
this year March, traditionally the first month of Spring, certainly ‘came in as a lion’
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as the saying goes and we shall have to see whether it ‘goes out like a lamb’.
Half page, full year £150 Half page, one month £20.00 Perhaps the analogy should be that it came in like a polar bear!
Third page, full year £113 Third page, one month £15.00 It is so very appropriate that we should be returning to our Parish Church for our
Easter services. Easter is all about moving into a new dimension. We do a great
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disservice to our Christian faith if we speak about Good Friday and Easter in terms
of “oh how sad he has died; oh how good he is back to life again”. The Jesus,
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who kept appearing to his disciples after he had risen from the dead, was no

For all advertising enquiries, contact the Editor, details on inside back cover. longer limited in the way he had been before he died. He was able to appear
Church website: www.bereregiswith affpuddle.org.uk

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