Category: Deacons’ Page

Despite two months having passed since the previous Deacons’ Meeting, there was very little on the agenda when we convened again early in September. There is a reason why we take a break from meetings during the traditional holiday month of August. And this being one of those months when the deadline for the newsletter […]

We’ve had a relatively ‘quiet’ holiday month, without much happening apart from our services of worship, which some (not quite all) of us have very much appreciated; but from September we’ll be getting back to normal in most ways. We’ve solved ‘the pigeon problem’, without draining the Church’s finances, thanks to an extraordinarily generous donation […]

Those of us who had been fretting over declining attendances were feeling positively reassured when enough members turned out for the July Church Meeting to make a quorum not just under the new rules, but under the old rules too – and this despite the fact that there were still some regular faces missing. It […]

If you are reading this on the day of its publication, Sunday 25th June, then there is a very important Church Meeting next Wednesday, June 28th, and all Church Members are asked to make a special effort to attend. All Church Meetings are ‘very important’, of course, but there are several decisions which need to […]

We were able to hold Church Meeting in May as under the new rules we were quorate, and that there was not a great deal to discuss was hopefully indicative of an operation that is running smoothly. It is always nice to finish early, notwithstanding the wonderful company. Much of what was discussed had to […]

Attendance at our Easter services was extremely disappointing – especially Maundy Thursday and Good Friday – but a little better on Easter Day. Let’s hope and pray that the spring weather will encourage more people to come to worship with us. At long last! We were finally able, last Wednesday, to hold our first ‘proper’ […]

The February Church Meeting was unfortunately not quorate, which in fact made it not a Church Meeting at all but a “Meeting of Church Members”, the difference being that whilst business could still be discussed and ideas deliberated upon no binding decisions could be taken. It was a shame, because there are so many matters […]

Last Wednesday evening we had to have another ‘Meeting of Church Members’, which is what we call a Church Meeting when too few Members attend to constitute our quorum number of eight – although on this occasion we were only ‘one short’ after a latecomer had arrived straight from work thinking that she might thereby […]

An unwelcome new record was broken on Wednesday when only four people – including the three Deacons – braved the dreary weather conditions to attend the first scheduled Church Meeting of 2023. It was remarked upon that even if we had followed up on suggestions to reduce the quorum to six, put on ice last […]

There’s not really much to say this month. We covered the November Church Meeting last month and there’s no Church Meeting scheduled for December – and even if there were, it would be ‘too late’ for this newsletter, which is due for publication on Christmas Day! We held our ‘Carols by Candlelight’ service last Sunday […]