Vestry meetings
There will be Vestry meetings on the 5th July (mine and Ashley’s 37th
wedding anniversary) and the 9th August. I shall be at New Wine in England
for the first week in August and so the vestry meeting will happen in the
second week. Isabel Dowlan will cover Sunday the 31st for me.
Looking ahead for the vestry AGM.
There will be vacancies including secretary and children and vulnerable
adult co-ordinator.
We must ensure that these positions are filled, so please pray daily for good
people to take on these good roles. There is a tendency in the year after a
priest arrives for the vestry committee to breathe a sigh of relief and let go of
the reigns. If that happens St Oswald’s church will close!!!! It won’t matter
that we have good visions and good mission projects if the vestry is not
quorate we cannot legally keep going. This is so very important, once again I
urge you all to PRAY DAILY.
Harvest Advent and Christmas
This year is going by very quickly and I need a few people to help me to plan
the Harvest, advent and Christmas services. I mean it when I say that if no
one wants to help there will be a very limited set of services during this time.
I really do hope that someone in the St Oswald family will delight in chatting
over the possibilities with me, possibly over a lovely meal somewhere. (Yes
it is bribery!)
First year gone
My first year as Priest In Charge at St
Oswald’s has passed. None of you have
asked for my resignation and I have not
wanted to leave, so all in all a fine time has
been had.
I look forward to hearing what God has to
say about the next year, what He wants us
all to do, and how He wants me to lead His
flock forward.
Since no one knows the future, who can
tell someone else what is to come?
Ecclesiastes 8:7
Lesley-ann
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