St John’s Annual Meeting – Thursday 7th May, 7pm in St John’s Church
Please join us in Church on Thursday 7th May, we will begin with a short meeting to elect our Churchwardens for the coming year. Then our Annual Parochial Church meeting will receieve the PCC’s reports for 2025, our updated electoral roll and there will be an opportunity to ask questions. We will also be electing our Deanery Synod and Church Council members for a three-year period. Ultimately we want to give thanks to God, and pray for the present and the future.
In preparation for the meeting, please find below:
- Our Accounts and Report for the Charity Commission
- An internal report (magazine) including the Safeguarding and Churchwarden reports, and an overview of our ministry and mission throughout 2025.
- Agenda for the Annual Meeting and Minutes of last year’s Annual Meeting
The PCC
The Parochial Church Council (PCC) helps the church to play it’s part in God’s mission, cooperates with the minister, ensures legal compliance with charity and ecclesiastical law, cares for our buildings and is a channel of consultation within the wider church.
Latest PCC Update
The last meeting of the current PCC was held on March 26th. This year all the Deanery Synod members need to be re-elected, 3 have completed 2 terms, so 3 new members will be needed.
The APCM date has changed to Thursday 7th May at 7pm.
All the Easter events which we planned have now happened.
Progress has been made on getting the church open during the week, and we hope to start this with the church being open each morning for a week of prayer commencing 20th April.
There were several buildings issues:
- we plan to install speakers in the Chancel to enhance the organ sound.
- The printer/photocopier in the office requires replacement, the new one appears cheaper to run and more ecological.
- The church only has one official fire exit (the main door) and there have been discussions about other options and holding “fire practices”.
- The architect has inspected and advised on some damage to the choir stalls at St Nicholas.
- Progress is being made on new banners.
- The ongoing problem of hearing in the centre was discussed, an engineer will be invited to assess what can be done. We know some people do not attend events in the Centre as they cannot hear well enough.
Kim reported that out young people led the worship at their central meeting “High Tide.”
Our thanks to Gillian Cruickshank, standing down as Churchwarden, and our 4 Deanery Synod members, Carol Jones, Anne Poulter, Barbara Wilson and Tim Marsden for years of service.
As always, the PCC values your prayers.
Please consider if you would like to help St John’s in its mission by standing for PCC membership.
The full minutes are available from the office.
Sarah Maclennan
PCC Secretary
ANNUAL REPORT
During 2023, the PCC prayed into a restructuring that delegates more responsibilities to Teams (sub-committees) that would meet to pray, discuss and report back to the PCC. The hope is that more people can be involved in running the Church, and the PCC has more time for our longer-term aims and vision.
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