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St Basil's Toller Fratrum Services at the date of this magazine going to press; otherwise please contact a church warden (contact details page 3) St George, Fordington, Dorchester, DT1 1LB St Simon & St Jude, Winterborne Monkton, DT2 9PT Every Sunday Communion Service at 10am. We no longer The church will be open for private prayer every Friday, require people to pre-book for this service. Names and Saturday and Sunday during the summer 9am-5pm or by contact details will be taken at the door. Wednesdays separate appointment with Judy Norman on 07880 700926. 1-4pm & Sundays 8.30-11.30am for personal Prayer. T H E W I N T E R B O U R N E S St Mary the Virgin, Dorchester, DT1 2HL St Martin, Winterborne St Martin, DT2 9JR Sunday worship each week Eucharist at 8am and also at 1st and 3rd Sun 11am Holy Communion 9.45am. Please could you book EACH week with Trudy 4th Sun 11am Worship Together [email protected] if you wish to attend either of the St Mary, Winterbourne Abbas, DT2 9LP services The church will also have a Eucharist on 1st Sun 10am Holy Communion Wednesday mornings at 9.30am but this does not need to 3rd Sun 10am Morning Worship be booked, just come along. St Michael, Winterbourne Steepleton, DT2 9LG St Peter, Dorchester, DT1 1XA 2nd Sun 11am Holy Communion Sunday 2 services of Morning Prayer, at 9am and 10.30am. St Thomas a Beckett, Compton Valence, DT2 9ER We will continue to be open for personal prayer from 2nd Sun 9.30am Holy Communion 10am – 4pm each day. 5th Sunday Services see notices. St Andrew, West Stafford, DT2 8AB There is a half hour Zoom Service each Sunday at 10am – Sunday Service at 11.15am. The church will be open for please let The Reverend Jean Saddington know if you would Private Prayer on Wednesdays from 10am-4pm. like to join in. There are currently no evening services. The Benefice Network Office Secretary St Andrew June Jenkins 250719 St Mary [email protected] Verger Cynthia Fry 573076 Organist Benefice Website Organist Geoff Greenhough 267723 Flowers Jill Shepherd 264222 www.dorchesteranglican.info - Flowers Margaret Morrissey 250366 Church Committee Secretary [email protected] Church Committee Secretary Felicity Murray Dorchester PCC Secretary Janet Cooper Robert Potter 262041 Treasurer Kaye Kerridge 268641 260259 [email protected] Treasurer John Heath 07802 527757 Envelopes Kaye Kerridge 268641 Dorchester PCC Treasurer Envelopes Electoral Roll Jill Shepherd 264222 Beryl Shuttleworth 266616 Electoral Roll Trudy Tabone 246126 Magazine Editor Servers Peter Vojak 265994 Margaret Morrissey 250366 St Simon & St Jude [email protected] Safeguarding Peter Vojak 265994 Organist Duncan Honeybourne 761881 Magazine Advertising Social Groups Flowers Rota of PCC members Olive Branch Joyce Potter 262041 c/o Margaret Morrissey 250366 Church Committee Secretary Monday Club Rosemary Bassett 262615 [email protected] Wendy Grassby 263762 Hall Bookings Email [email protected] and Treasurer Hilary Hoskin 251085 your message will be sent to someone from John Williams [email protected] Electoral Roll Wendy Frost 889510 the Magazine, Pews News, the Parish Magazine Circulation Cynthia Fry office or the Team Website. Safeguarding Peter Vojak 265994 St George St Peter Verger Val Potter 264416 Benefice House/Prayer Groups Verger Tony Archer 07484 257612 Organist David Fawcett 07740818107 Friday Prayer Group Meets at St Peter’s Organist Evelyn Kingman 265741 Bellringers Will Haydock 07976 276066 Friday 10.30am Penny Blaby 753556 Sunday School Maggie Carter 266072 Dorcas MU Bible Study Group Meets on Bellringers Tony Spiller 262442 Flowers Kate Chapman 756069 and Rosalind Thorpe 259659 Weds 10am Janet Cooper 260259 Flowers Helen Pickard St Peter’s MU Penny Blaby 753556 Church Committee Secretary Church Committee Secretary Cheryl Taylor 269564 Tony Palmer 268486 Emmaus House Group Meets on 3rd Treasurer Michael Neely 262869 Treasurer David Elliott 259236 Monday of the month. Envelopes Envelopes David Elliott 259236 Christian Meditation Group Electoral Roll Dorothy Maggs 262436 Electoral Roll Jim Mclean 260126 Wednesdays, 5pm at St. Mary’s. Social Events Maggie Carter 266072 Social Events Rosalind Thorpe 259659 Rosemary Bassett 262615 Servers Safeguarding Jane Pryce 269937 Home Bible Study Group Monday 7.30pm Safeguarding Hall Bookings Pat Davies 267745 30 Grosvenor Rd Celia Robertson 257621 Hall Bookings [email protected] Brownies Becki Munro 457181 Magazine Circulation Val Scriven Magazine Circulation Mark Dyer Rangers Lisa Upward 265574 2 The Bishop of Salisbury, Nicholas Holtam The impact of COVID-19 is changing us. In many ways, people have The Team stepped up to look after each other. Churches have been part of this but Team Rector it’s been a much broader movement of neighbourly care. We have Vacant – contact church wardens applauded the NHS and care workers and we have redefined who are with responsibility for St Mary the Virgin the key workers. The desire to look after each other is strong. and St Simon & St Jude Every organisation has had to change rapidly. Churches have adapted Team Vicars locally extraordinarily fast. Thank you for all you have done to help. Vacant – contact church wardens None of us knows if this is the new normal but at the end of summer with responsibilty for St George it looks as though the winter could be long and difficult. This virus is and St Andrew not yet finished with us. Vacant – contact church wardens with responsibility for St Peter’s We are being tested. The virus is not limited by national boundaries. Revd Jean Saddington It is a global pandemic. There have been some key moments and our with responsibility for responses have been revealing. The death of George Floyd in The Winterbournes & Compton Valence Minneapolis set off an international movement that Black Lives Matter. 01305 889992 Who are the people we want to celebrate and why? We have been too Associate Clergy slow re-evaluating the statues populating our public space and frustration Revd Joanna Lacy-Smith boiled over. People want to be dealt with justly and we need to rework 01305 889476 our history so that it helps us tell a better story in our own day. Licensed Lay Ministers For example, there are lessons for us with regard to slavery. Church David Bowen 01305 263584 was part of the problem and became part of the solution. We were among Allen Knott 01305 267217 those who profited from slavery and claimed it was part of God’s given Caroline McMeiken 07555 967387 order. We were also among those who campaigned for its abolition. In Robert Potter 01305 262041 this respect my predecessor Bishop Burgess (1825-37) was courageous in Churchwardens the late eighteenth century in articulating his opposition to slavery. St George Nowadays no-one is in favour of slavery and the Church is among those vacant challenging modern-day slavery. The question for us is why there was a vacant re-evaluation of the way we understood scripture that changed our values St Mary the Virgin and the way we acted. Trudy Tabone 01305 246126 Ellie Stephens 01305 263391 One of my favourite Bible stories is from Matthew 22.15-22 when the St Peter religious leaders tried to trap Jesus with a political question. Is it lawful Val Potter 01305 264416 to pay taxes to the emperor? Smelling hypocrisy, Jesus asked whose image St Andrew is on a coin? They answered the emperor’s. “Give to the emperor the vacant things that are the emperor’s and to God the things that are God’s.” St Simon & St Jude It’s a clever and enigmatic response. Whatever it means about God Charles Norman 01305 262719 Judy Norman 01305 262719 and Caesar, paying taxes, and the Christian engagement with political St Martin life and power, a Jew at the time of Jesus would have heard an unspoken Dick Corbett-Winder 01305 889410 second question: ‘And you, whose image are you made in?’ We are called St Mary to live as people made in God’s image. Joy Parsons 01305 889611 That at the heart of who we are and we need to take care to live up St Michael to it. A time of crisis is both a judgement and an opportunity. Ellie Sturrock 07980 089470 Roddy Kilpatrick 01305 889238 St Thomas +Nicholas Sarum Peter Steel 01308 482782 Jeremy Russell 01308 482227 Chaplaincy at Dorset County Hospital Reverend Ron Martin (CofE) Lead Hospital Chaplain Dorchester Benefice Magazine Please submit copy for the November issue email [email protected] Editor: Margaret Morrissey OBE by 17th October at the latest. Revd Jean Saddington (CofE) Chaplain 9 Hessary St., Poundbury, Dorchester DT1 3SF All new articles please submit by [email protected] [email protected] 01305 250366 12th October or give notice of intention to Father Barry Hallett (RC) Chaplain the Editor at Advertising Manager: [email protected] Contactable via Ron [email protected] Printed by Sherrens of Weymouth 3 Oppressed Christians struggling under Covid-19 Release International Oppression and discrimination against Christians has In Pakistan the situation is especially hard for increased during Covid, says Release International, converts from a Muslim background. which has launched an appeal to help Christians The only form of social security is family support suffering during the pandemic. and Muslim families often withdraw support for family Many Christians have been denied food and relief members who change their religion. aid and excluded from support systems during In several countries lockdown has led to an increase lockdown. They have been abandoned by families in persecution. because of their faith and refused relief by governments In Upper Egypt, where Christians face and NGOs. discrimination for their faith, some organisations are At the same time, several countries have stepped up allegedly refusing food and support to Christian persecution against Christians.
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