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April 2006 April 2006 PARISH MAGAZINE EDITOR TTTHTHHHEEEE PPPAPAAARRRRIIIISSSSHHHHEEEESSSS ooofofff BBBEBEEERRRREEEE Alison Debenham RRREREEEGGGGIIIISSSS aaanannndddd AAAFAFFFFFPPPPUUUUDDDDDDLLLLEEEE ‘’Culver Dell“, Shitterton, Bere Regis, with TURNERSPUDDLE Wareham, Dorset. BH20 7HU Telephone: 01929 471780 Fax: 01929 472580 The Reverend Ian Woodward E-mail: [email protected] The Vicarage, Bere Regis, BH20 7HQ Producing this magazine each month is a voluntary activity. As I work full time, Tel: (01929) 471262 please do not expect an immediate response to phone messages or e-mails. I usually work on the magazine at weekends, so will try to acknowledge e-mails by the Sunday after they have been sent. APRIL2006 Please submit all announcements, copy or advertisements to Alison, no later than the 15th of each month. ************************************************* THOUGHTS FROM THE V ICARAGEICARAGE Contributors from Affpuddle and Briantspuddle may submit copy, no later than the 13th of each month, to: Una Russell Lent or ‘lengthening’ of the days in our northern hemisphere is a sign of hope, indeed hope is one of the great features of Lent and with love is at the heart of 1 Dairy Cottages, Briantspuddle, Dorchester, DT2 7HT our faith; of what it means to be a Christian. Hope is individual, but most of us look 01929 471814. Please note – no advertisements to Una. forward to warm sunny days and the sense of new life all around us to enjoy with our loved ones. ************************************************ For us in these latitudes Lent and spring come together. This year spring has been We regret that late submissions will not be included. a long time coming and this winter has been much more like the winters of my childhood when it was properly cold for longish periods, but even then my grandparents would say that their winters were ‘always much colder’! More ************************************************ recently we have had very short winters, indeed this time last year the daffodils were just about all over and there was concern that there might not be much Copy can be accepted handwritten, but preferably via e-mail as a Microsoft choice of flowers to decorate our churches for Easter. And most of us had cut our Word attachment. Alternatively, a MS Word file on floppy disk is acceptable. grass at least once. But a colder winter - provided our more vulnerable neighbours Please ensure your virus software is fully up to date before e-mailing or are not at risk - is a good thing; we’ve had the best display of snowdrops at supplying on disk. Please do not use underlining , UPPER CASE formatting, or Affpuddle Churchyard that I can remember, and a good frost kills many of the include any tables or graphics. bugs. And though the frogs first appeared on St. Valentine’s Day to test the water For more advice on computer based copy, please ring Alison. as it were, it was so cold that they didn’t return for four weeks, but now their spawn is much more likely to survive so we should see even more frogs next year. ********************************************** This is all a reminder about new life; indeed we are very lucky with the distinctiveness of our seasons that we can appreciate the changes to our flora Distribution enquiries contact: Sally and Gordon Cheeseman, 4 Elder Road, and fauna so much more. Easter is about new life too, and though it is so easily Bere Regis, BH20 7LY. Telephone 01929 471022 84 Church website: www.bereregiswith1 affpuddle.org.uk April 2006 April 2006 eclipsed by Christmas in our national festivals and holidays, it is so much more important, because as Christians we are an Easter people. It was only through Christ dying and rising again that we can be confident of our own redemption DATES FOR and immortality, and thus liberated from our own needs, that we can live out a life trying to follow the example of Jesus Christ – loving one another as he loves us. YOUR DIARY In our Lent groups this year we have been wrestling with the question ‘Where is God’. On his recent visit to Sudan, Dr Rowan Williams the Archbishop of Canterbury was interviewed by Sir David Frost. They had just visited the al-Gariya displaced persons camp near Khartoum. Sir David asked the Archbishop ‘Do you believe there is a God or do you know there is a God?’ It was a good question for Lent, given the August awful state of human suffering in those camps – I know personally how similarly dreadful conditions are in a neighbouring camp called Jebel Aulia. Dr Rowan’s 6th Open Garden and Rural Crafts, Shitterton Farmhouse 11.00-6.00 response was ‘ I believe there is a God, with all the trust and with all the hope and with all the love that there is within me. I don’t know there is a God, in the sense that I know him sitting opposite me here in Khartoum. It’s not that kind of evidence September but it’s what people have called ‘moral certainty’, something I’d stake my life on 9th Dorset Historic Churches Trust Sponsored Cycle Ride when it comes to it. Now I say that blithely and hopefully, knowing that with another part of my mind that in a crisis none of knows quite how we would 16th Pop in Place Community Celebration Day 2.00 p.m. - 11.00 p.m. respond’. He went on to say ‘But that’s where the faith of a Church like Sudan is so important – I have seen people (here) staking their lives on this. I pray and hope October that when it comes to the crisis I would have that courage’. That 7th Auction of Promises in aid of Church funds, Drax Hall 7.30 p.m. seems to me to be a thoughtful and very human response that we can all take comfort and hope in this November Easter, and God is indeed in those camps in Sudan as he is here in our parishes. So, do join us at our Easter services December as we celebrate God’s life changing acts through Jesus Christ - there is a great choice for this our greatest festival, including our dawn service of light on Easter morning at Affpuddle. A very happy Easter to you all With love and prayers 2 83 April 2006 April 2006 THE PARISHES OF BERE REGIS AND AFFPUDDLE DATES FOR YOUR DIARY April 4th Gardening club - Dr Bob Duke’s ‘Canals’ 8th Bere Regis Church special clean 10.00 a.m. 12th Autumn Leaves - tour to Ottery St Mary 19th Autumn Leaves - Coffee Morning at Kath and Charlie’s 10.30 a.m. 29th Bere Regis Church outing to Isle of Wight and Osborne House ([email protected]) May 2nd Gardening club - Chris Hunter - Wall Shrubs 10th Autumn Leaves - The Donkey Sanctuary by Mrs Rawlings 2.30 p.m. 13th Pop in Place Performers Celebration Concert 27th Mothers’ Union coffee morning, Turberville Court 10.30 a.m June 4th Briantspuddle Open Gardens event 6th Gardening club - visit to be announced 471751 14th Autumn Leaves - coach tour to Sidmouth 10.00 a.m. 17th Affpuddle Church fete 24th Bere Regis Church fete July 9th Pop in Place Open Gardens event 25-27th New Forest and Hampshire County Show 82 3 April 2006 April 2006 BEREBERE REGISREGIS CHURCHCHURCH ROTASROTAS Associati Contact Tel Address E-mail Meetings/Info on Bere Regis Sidesmen Coffee Stop Jean Thorn 471646 20 Cyril Wood Monthly Cyril Wood Court Court, BH20 7HH Bere Regis 1st Saturday 10am - 12 Evensong 2nd 10.00 am Mr Bates/Mr House noon Readers Chalice Mr House/Mr Smith Drax Hall Sally 471022 4 Elder Road Cheeseman BH20 7LY 6.00pm Mrs Jutting Bookings 2nd Mrs Jutting Secretary 9th 11.00am Family service Mrs England with children Kingsbere Miss G Miller 471745 3 Boswell’s Close Monthly Drax Hall Quilters BH20 7JE 1st Wednesday @ 9.45 am 16th 9.15am Mr Wharf/Mr Smith Kingsbere Music Tim Colquhoun 471360 Heatherdown, kmt@tacmusi Charitable trust supporting Chalice Mr Croom/Mr Wharf Trust Brock Hill c.com devotees of real music 26th 11.00 am Miss Miller Lenny’s - Bere Terry Vine 471693 The Bungalow, terry.vine@tis Weekly. RBL Club Regis Youth club Lane End, Bere cali.co.uk 1st Wednesday and Heath, BH20 7NP following Tuesday evenings 30th 9.15 am Mr Wharf/Mr Croom Juniors (8-11) 7.15-9.00 Seniors (12-17) 7.15-10.00 Cleaning and Dusting Mothers’ Union Monthly. Turberville Court Cleaning Dusting 1st Wednesday. 7.30 p.m. Mobile Library Dorset County 01305 dorchestermo Alternate fortnights Car Mrs R Cleave and Miss P Mrs M Miller and Mrs E Council 224440 bilelibrary@d park 1st April Chesney Munro orsetcc.gov.uk Mondays 9.20- 9.50 Fridays 10.50 - 12.15 8th and 15th April Mrs J Woodward and Mrs Mrs J Woodward Pop in Place Angela Jones 472261 7 Boswells Close Weekly. Drax Hall C Tucker BH20 7JE Monday and Friday mornings Mrs H Green and Mrs A Miss G Miller and Mrs J 22nd and 29th April 10.00 - 12.00 Jones Harvey Purbeck District Peter Wharf 472246 The Old Vicarage peterwharf@h Monthly surgery. Turberville Councillor West Street otmail.com Court, Communal Lounge Sanctuary Flower Guild 1st Saturday @ 9.30—10.00 2nd and 9th April Lent - no flowers Royal British Mrs Glo Curtis 472620 32 Old Barn Road Glo.curtis@do Monthly at the club Legion Club rset.probation 3rd Monday @ 7.30 p.m. 15th and 23rd Decorating for Easter .gsx.gov.uk (work) 30th April and 7th May Mrs P Jesty and Mrs K Abbott RBL Gardening Mrs Megan 471627 2 Manor House Monthly.