A COMBINED harvest festival communion service between Weymouth's St Nicholas' Church and Holy Trinity Church will begin at Holy Trinity at 10.15am tomorrow. Organisers ask that harvest offerings are brought to be auctioned for charity Christian Aid. The combined service will follow the 8am communion at Holy Trinity and the 9am one at St Nicholas'. There will also be a bring and share' lunch after the combined service. At 6.30pm there will be an Iona service at Holy Trinity Church.

  • ARTS and crafts will go on display in St Andrew's Church rooms, Preston, Weymouth from 10am to 4pm today.
  • TODAY is the beginning of National Quaker Week. Members of the Religious Society of Friends based in Bridport and Dorchester have arranged a series of tours of their local meeting houses, free talks and meeting and meal times taking place in both towns until next Sunday.
  • A TALK about the work of eyesight charity Vision Aid Overseas in Malawi will begin at St Peter's Hall, Dorchester at 3.30pm today. It was organised by the Friends of St Peter's Church.
  • A TAIZÉ service with theme of ministry and discipleship will take place at 6pm tomorrow at St Mary's Church, Dorchester. The theme was chosen to mark the recent ordination at Salisbury Cathedral of Jean Saddington and Jo Lacey-Smith as deacons.
  • BOVINGTON'S Light Cavalry Band will perform a musical medley at St John's Church, Greenhill, Weymouth on Wednesday (8) from 7.30pm. Tickets are £8 each for adults and £5 for children, including fruit punch served during an interval. Call 01305 786043.
  • VOLUNTEERS are heading to Bytom, Poland, on Thursday (9) to prepare for a longer trip there later in the year. Brenda Woodsford and other volunteers from Weymouth Baptist Church are taking out 60 kilos of toys and clothes and making arrangements for a return trip later in the year.
  • A COFFEE morning and sale being run in aid of The Children's Society will begin at 10am next Saturday (11) at Weymouth's Holy Trinity Church.
  • COUPLES planning on marrying in Dorset are being urged by the Prayer Book Society to opt for traditional rather than contemporary church services. A society spokesman said 'relaxations' brought in under the Church of England Marriage Measure 2008 will result in more church weddings. The measure allows people to be married in a place of worship in a parish to which they both have a 'qualifying connection'.