Category: Deacons’ Page

Our experimental move to Sundays for Church Meetings has not proved an overwhelming success but the third of the three, held in March, was at least quorate. As well as being able to approve minutes from previous Church Meetings, and Meetings of Church Members (there is a difference), this meant we could take decisions which […]

We are almost halfway through Lent, with Easter on the last weekend of March; which is also when the clocks go forward! During Lent you may have promised yourself to read a special book or attend other churches’ activities. Or maybe come to both services here, there is still time! It would be lovely to […]

If you are reading this newsletter in Church fresh off the presses, that is on the last Sunday of January, then you will be reminded during Notices that Church Meeting this month will be taking place after Sunday morning service, rather than on the usual Wednesday evening. This will be the first of three monthly […]

In accordance with our custom we do not have a Church Meeting in December, so there is nothing to report in that regard. Attendance at our Christmas services was a little better than last year and it was a particular pleasure to see Rosie and Joe Andrews joining their parents (both of whom had two […]

There was a multitude gathered there on the evening of Wednesday last. No it wasn’t the feeding of the five thousand, although some food might have been welcome to warm us up on this dark and chilly night. It was in fact the 2023 Annual Church Meeting, where officers and deacons are elected, reports given […]

Our November Church Meeting – assuming it is quorate – will be the ‘annual’ meeting at which our Church Members receive the reports from our Church officers and elect our deacons and others who serve our Church in various ways, so all Church Members really should make every effort to be with us in the […]

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 […]