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Famine confirmed in our partner diocese of Sudan

As the partnership enters its 53rd year, Canon Ian Woodward writes of dire developments in Sudan and urgent need for food and prayer

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'It's never too late for God’ as 95 year old confirmed

95 year old Mavis Lindstrom confirmed in joyful service in Bradford on Avon

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Meet our new lay ministers

On Saturday 28 September two new lay ministers will be admitted and licensed in Salisbury Cathedral by Bishop Karen as Warden of Licensed Lay Ministers, and many more will renew their promises, as they do each year in a service that celebrates this essential ministry.


Bike Blessing!

Last Sunday, 1 September, over thirty bikers from Dorset and Wiltshire came to St Mary's, Gillingham for a motorcycle blessing.

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St John's, Broadstone achieve Silver Eco Church

On Sunday 1 September, Creation Sunday at the start of Creationtide, St John's Church in Broadstone celebrated their Silver Eco Church Award. When the St John's Eco Gang will be leading the morning service. There is also an afternoon pet service at 3pm that day, called Wet Nose Sunday, when all pets are brought to the service and blessed, and they will celebrate it there also. Eco Church and Pet Service celebrations held in Broadstone!

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80th year anniversary of Roma Holocaust marked in Dorset

"No longer the forgotten people of the Holocaust" said Betty Smith Billington from the Dorset based Kushti Bok charity

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Year 3 handmade beautiful banner

Year 3 went on to tell me they had been learning about Roman mosaics – so decided to put these two bits of learning together.  So they made this lovely mosaic representing the story of Pentecost.

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Farewell and thank you at diocesan synod

The final diocesan synod of the current three year period met in Salisbury to worship together and thank those who are stepping down after – in some cases – decades of membership.

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Dorset Father and Son Pilgramage for Christian Aid!

In May, we wrote of Geoff and Will Sherwood (from St Luke's, Parkstone, Poole) fundraising challenge to complete a 3,400-mile ‘reverse pilgrimage’ from Cyprus to Canterbury. You can read all about this here.

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