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Access to United Church Dorchester Due to the Fire in South Street, it is currently only possible to enter United Church Dorchester from the Coffee #1 end of South Street, or preferably via our Charles Street entrance opposite the Library. Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the Gorge’s building fire, especially the owners.
Weybay Methodist Church is hosting Oddments Theatre Company for a performance of The Hiding Place, at 7.00pm on Saturday 15 February. Tickets can be bought for £14 in advance, or for £16 on the door. The Hiding Place is the story of Corrie Ten Boom, a Christian woman who lived in Haarlem, Holland during World War II, and her family. Corrie saw the horrific threat the Nazis posed to the Jewish people and decided that she couldn’t just sit back and do nothing. With the help of an Underground regime, her family’s faith and a man called Fred, Corrie was able to create a safe place for Jewish people to hide in her family’s home. But what could the Ten Booms do when they were arrested?
Everyone is welcome to attend the local Dorchester & District World Day of Prayer service which will be held on Friday 7th March 2025 at10:30am at St Marys Church in Dorchester. Coffee and Fairtrade products will be available after the service. World Day of Prayer is an international, ecumenical, prayer movement that invites women, from a different part of the world each year, to prepare a worship service through which their hopes and fears for their country may be brought before the whole world in prayer. This year the Christian women of the Cook Islands have compiled the order of service whose theme is from Psalm 139: “I made you wonderful”. In addition to the service, there will be a coffee morning on 8th February to raise funds for the projects which the World Day of Prayer movement supports.
It is now some time since Traidcraft went into administration. However, a limited number of their own brand products have been re-launched by Transform Trade, including tea bags, greetings cards and toilet rolls. The United Church remains committed to Fair Trade. We have recently been awarded our Fairtrade Place of Worship certificate and we continue to use Fair Trade tea and coffee at church events. The Church shop stocks many Fair Trade items, including Divine chocolate, cocoa, coffee, peanut butter, honey, Fair Trade cards and gifts from Shared Earth. Thank you for your support.
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