Pray. Our most important work will be to hold this process up to the Lord in prayer and pray especially for candidates and for those deciding how to vote. The Church of England will be distributing daily election reflections in the three weeks in the run up to Election Day and you can sign up to receive these here. Pray Your Part: General Election 2024 | The Church of England Encourage people to use their vote. It is so important that the Christian voice is heard in this election and that means getting our people out to vote. The new regulations around providing proof of identity at the polling booths may need some explanation to some of our people. There may also be volunteers in your congregation who can assist older people with transport Model good disagreement. There is so much that is unhealthy in our political dialogue at the moment. At events such as hustings and in our own internal conversations, we can model what it means to disagree well
The band played, hymns sung and retiring May King, Noah Lowden gave a brilliant speech. His speech is attached to this Newsletter as the microphone didn’t work as well as expected. Please do read it. In his year of office, Noah surpassed his target and raised £1250 for the Children's Society plus he donated £200 to our church. Thank you to all who helped make this a lovely, traditional church afternoon, followed by excellent refreshments in the Village Hall.For more pictures please click the link!
The following were elected: · Church Warden: Simon Gilbert was accepted and will be appointed in June by Archdeacon Mark Ireland · A second Church Warden: not appointed / vacant · New / Returning PCC members: Samantha Tomlinson, Pam Fitton, Brian Sutcliffe, Heather Swindlehurst · PCC Secretary: not appointed / vacant
