Category: Deacons’ Page

It would be great to have more members attending our monthly Church meetings. All our members are invited to come along every month at 8pm so they can be part of the decision making that affects the Isleworth Congregational Church community. The next meeting is on Wednesday 27th July at 8pm. It was discussed that […]

Yes! We did it at last! It really should be customary rather than a cause for celebration, but last Wednesday evening we held a ‘proper’ Church Meeting, following three months of being inquorate. Inevitably much on the agenda was routine rather than exciting, but we were able to ‘tick off’ several items which have been […]

We’ve had a blessèd Easter – in most ways. We gathered around our Communion Table (literally!) on the evening of Maundy Thursday to commemorate the Last Supper – a ‘faithful few’ of us (around half a dozen) listened again to some of Jesus’ words spoken on that fateful evening and shared the bread and wine […]

For the second time running our Church Meeting in March was sadly inquorate and so, as in February, matters of import to the Church could be discussed but not voted upon, which was a great shame, because there was much on the agenda to be considered. A meeting with a representative of the Congregational Federation […]

Church Meeting This page is being written post our Church meeting on 23rd February 2022. One topic discussed is as follows: not having the quorum (the necessary number of people present for decisions to be allowed to be made) required for this meeting; we need more people in attendance to be able to put a […]

Perhaps this is the time to begin to think about the long-term effects of the virus on our Church life. The size of our worshipping congregations has been affected less than might have been feared – indeed the size of our evening congregations seems actually to have increased lately. We could count on the fingers […]

Typically this page is produced either in anticipation of Church Meeting at the end of the month, or immediately in its wake. Which of the two it is determines how fresh is the news that it imparts. During the month of December though there is no meeting either to report on or to anticipate. With […]

Two contributions this month – as our diaconate has substantially changed. Firstly, from our ‘retiring’ deacons… In many ways this page is going to be a thank you and a welcome. Firstly a thank you to Jemima for representing our church at the Remembrance Sunday service at the Clock Tower on the 14th November. Last […]

I hope you all remembered to put your clocks back last night and enjoyed an extra hour in bed? At the very end of September we celebrated the gift of God’s bounty with our harvest service, we gave tinned goods to the local food bank and a cheque to The Disaster Emergency Committee to help […]

The end of September… soon to be the beginning of October. Back end my dad used to call it. Autumn, the end of the year approaching with cooler weather. This has been a busy week and weekend. We held our church meeting on Wednesday in the hall which was quorate … so thank you to […]