Category: Deacons’ Page

We trust you all remembered to put your clocks back and enjoyed the extra hour in bed! Our Church Meeting last Wednesday evening was quorate – mercifully we seem to be progressing beyond that quartet of inquorate meetings between February and June, but it would still be great if at least a few more from […]

As I am writing the Deacons’ Page I’m listening to Bradwell’s Church bells chime, being away on holiday in Derbyshire and thinking of the recent Deacons’ Pages and next week’s Church Meeting. Antony is about to produce the monthly newsletter for October already, which seems unbelievable as we head into Autumn already. With autumn in […]

There has been no Church Meeting during the holiday month of August upon which to report but, of course, the life of the Church continues throughout this holiday season. It has been good to have Mary Downes back worshipping with us during our morning service for the past couple of weeks. We are grateful to […]

After several months of diminished turnouts which had quite paralysed our ability to make decisions affecting the Church, it was really gratifying this month not only to achieve a quorum, but to surpass it with some to spare. It was especially nice to welcome Jemima back after her travels, and judging from the numbers present […]

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 […]