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Click here ot download word file Winter 2010, Number 26

Press Release

Inspired to Go! and Inspired to Go Further!

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This year the diocese of Salisbury is repeating the very popular ‘Inspire to Go’ Mission workshop day and extending it to both the north and south as venues will be  Market Lavington on 16th January and in Dorchester on 30th January. 

Following the successful format of previous years the day offers a choice of 9 workshops to encourage and inspire parishes to hear about mission activities that have been tried and tested across the area.  ....click here for more information

Click here ot download word file Summer 2009, Number 25

Poole Pilgrimage 13th – 19th June 2009 - ....click here for more information

SUCCESSFUL FUNDRAISING

Wednesday 4th November 2009
10.00am- 4.00pm
St Francis’ Church, Salisbury

• Does your church need to raise funds for a building or community project?
• If your answer is ‘YES’ you need to attend the Successful Fundraising Day.
• We can’t give you the money, but we can help with ways of getting it. ....click here for more information

The Grace Secondary School Appeal, run by Dorchester couple Richard and Claire Budd, has reached a landmark target that will ensure the school can open to pupils next year.  But it's not quite "mission accomplished" explains Claire Budd.

"We have been raising money here in Dorset - with help from further afield in the south and also in Northern Ireland - for just over a year now. Our total recently passed the amazing £50,000 mark and now a Northern Ireland based charity CMS Ireland has secured £24,000. This means that once this money has been transferred our total will reach £76,000. This covers the cost of building the school and beginning to kit it out with all the things needed for it to open in January 2010.".....click here for more information or go to www.gracesecondaryschool.com

POOLE ANGLICAN DEANERY NEWSSHEET September 2009

Some of this  information comes from the Communications Department of the Diocese and I am in touch with a number of other sources including magazines from our local churches and parishes in the Poole Deanery.   Please feel free to use as required.

BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY

This is a very simple concept, building on research by the charity Tearfund, that three million people – over six percent of the UK population - would come back to church if they received a personal invitation to do so.   In all, around 3,000 churches were involved in 2008 with over 37,000 people accepting the.......click here for more information

Dorset Couple Claire and Richard Budd are raising money to build a secondary school in the Nuba mounts (Sudan) Click here to find out how the project is going after raising £12,500 in the first 3 months of opening the project….www.GraceSecondarySchool.com

	You can even look at the images with this Postcard Viewer. Use the space bar and the arrow keys to view or the mouse is good too. Click on the pile of photographs.

Christmas cards for Sudan

For the last 14 years Keith Whittock has been designing a range of cards to raise money and awareness of the Salisbury - Sudan links. These have proved to be increasingly popular and work on them has become something of a mini-cottage-industry. In 2007, over £1100 was raised for the Sudan funds, representing sales of about 5000 cards.. . click here for more information