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The latest update from the Church of England in most of Wiltshire and Dorset, plus bits of Hampshire and Devon.

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Tuesday 20 September 2016

Top Stories

Serving With Dignity
Vergers from across England celebrate major festival at Salisbury Cathedral
In Gratitude for Service
Wilts man receives BEM for services in preserving Salisbury Plain church
Top Marks
East Dorset verger gains distinction in professional qualification
Mothers’ Union Activities, August 2016
Some of the things that have been happening around our Diocese

Diocesan Events

Mind The Gap - Why Equality Is Better For Everyone
Friday 23 Sep
With Kate Pickett
at Poole Hospital Post Graduate Medical School, BH15 2JB
Registration cost is £5 per person. Inquiries to Robert Pearce via email
Reader 150th Anniversary Eucharist at Salisbury Cathedral
Sat 1 Oct, 11am.
All welcome!
Email your inquiries to Judy Anderson
‘The Lord Your God Goes With You’: The Sudans Day 2016. Saturday 8 October, Shaftesbury School. Update on South Sudan.  Poster here; provisional programme here.
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Tuesday 27 September, 7pm
‘Join in and Celebrate!’
at St James’ Church, Shaftesbury. Celebrating 30 years of service to the elderly, with Bp Karen. See our September listings

Friday 7 October, 6.30pm
‘Listening to your life: 30 ways to discern direction for your future’ book launch
at Sarum College Bookshop. “For everyone considering the meaning, purpose and direction of life." Details and booking
There are other new events in the likes of Edington, Exeter, Fordingbridge, Lyme Regis, Salisbury and Wimborne.

Keep up to date here; submit your latest events here.

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Courses

Churchwarden Training 2016
Tuesday 27 September
St Nicholas Church Centre, Corfe Mullen BH21 3LE
2.45-7pm
A series of presentations covering practical topics that recognises the important role of Churchwardens as lay leaders in their congregations, but could also be useful to others in your church family. Cost £5 per person.  A light supper will be provided. Full details and booking
Listening Well
Led by Acorn Christian Healing Foundation
Wednesday 5 October
Amesbury Baptist Church Centre
10am-4pm
This listening course is designed specifically for Lay Pastoral Assistants. This highly practical and interactive course will give you the opportunity to reflect on your pastoral work, to refresh and enhance your listening skills and to increase your confidence and ability to respond well in challenging and complex pastoral situations. Details and booking
Growing Messy Leaders
with Lucy Moore & CPAS
24 September
St Francis’ Church, Salisbury
10am-3pm
BRF’s Messy Church team and CPAS are working together to help Messy Church team members and leaders of all ages become better leaders through team-building work and leadership theory and reflective practice. CPAS brings their extensive experience of growing leaders in churches, and Lucy Moore brings her expertise in developing best practice for the Messy Church model. A fun, inspirational, useful and paradigm-shifting all-age training day. Details & booking
Breakfast Church
With Chris Tebbutt and Laurence Singlehurst
29 September
St John's Southbroom, Devizes
10am-3pm
How do you get whole families, including the dads, to come to church? Bacon butties are proving an effective tool for mission! Un-churched and de-churched families are coming to breakfast churches across our diocese.
Revd Chris Tebbutt and his team from Canford have been running 'Breakfast@9' for nearly five years now. This fresh expression has grown to a church of 100 people that still relates to traditional church. Laurence Singlehurst, director of Cell UK and former Director of YWAM will talk on people-sensitive evangelism and how to grow disciples that ‘stick’. Book now!
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Monday 3 October, 10am-4pm
Mothers' Union Volunteer Day 2016
at St Paul’s Church Centre, Salisbury SP2 7QW
Focussing on vocations and project work. Refreshments and lunch are provided. Info and booking

18 September-23 October, 3pm
Lyme Regis Organ School Sunday afternoon organ recitals
at St Michael the Archangel, Lyme Regis. More info here

Sunday 2 October, 3pm
PipeUp event
at Parish Church of St Michael the Archangel, Lyme Regis, performed by students of the Pipe Up Scheme aged 8- 17, playing the new 3-manual 48 stop Skrabl organ. More details here
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Creationtide 1 Sep-4 Oct

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Announcements

The National Prayer Weekend 2016 is 23-25 September. As a church, small group or pair, in town or country, please pray for our nation! Full details here.
We have fabulous new ‘M4M’ pages with stories of parishes doing mission and help with getting projects started. Start browsing here!

Sally Pinhey, churchwarden at St Laurence’s, Upwey, would like to thank all 136 of her colleagues who completed her survey on energy efficiency. Results will be available once ready. The six bottles of wine were won by Jill Bevans of St Edward King and Martyr, Corfe.

HOST is a charity that encourages international friendship and understanding by arranging for adult international students at UK universities to spend 1-3 days in a British home. Hosting is a wonderful opportunity to meet people from around the world. HOST’s work is even more important at the moment with the recent increase of racist and xenophobic abuse across the UK. Full details here.
Watch out for the DEC!
One of our diocesan offices has new ads coming to the Salisbury Journal online site and other places. Sneak preview above... click here for the DEC's website
Altar rail on offer
“I have an altar rail which I would be pleased if a home in a church could be found. It consists of one piece of 7 feet and one of 6 feet. There is a possibility of a third length as well.” Inquiries to Dennis Barnes via email.

Website updates

Prayer
National Weekend of Prayer and ‘Thy Kingdom Come’

Ministry 4 Mission
An entirely new set of pages about mission projects!

Cathedral
Master Plan Consultation

Churchwardens
Sherborne training session

Mothers’ Union
Volunteers event

Music courses
Two new organists’ courses

Deaneries
This week’s update from Devizes
Sharing your stories
Got a parish Facebook page or Twitter feed? Let us know by email and we’ll follow you. We can then get in touch if we like the look of your story. Let’s renew our hope together.
Many thanks to all who contributed to this glimpse into the life of the diocese.
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