Snippets from the PCC Meeting – 17th December 2024
Among the matters discussed at the PCC meeting on 17th December were:
Organisation and priorities
As we have been operating without a vicar for more than three-and-a-half years, it is appropriate to review our priorities and the way the PCC is organised. We will devote our regular PCC meeting in February to that. In doing so we will take account of the diocese’s Strategic Framework which was launched last year.
Members of the PCC attended an event in July at which the framework, with its nine goals, was presented and explained. Since then we have identified the three goals which most closely fit with our current priorities and activities and the three which will be most challenging for our parish to engage with.
The newly-appointed strategy programme director for the diocese will be attending the February Deanery Synod and members of the PCC will be attending that meeting.
We hope that by focussing on the needs of our parish and also the diocesan strategic framework we will be able to ensure that we adopt the best priorities and practices so that St Chad’s as a church can continue to do God’s work in this parish.
Follow the Star and Experience Christmas
The PCC meeting took place a few days after Follow the Star and the day after Experience Christmas. It was noted that both of these events had been very successful and both were the result of contributions from many members of the congregation and others
They were not the only events taking place in the run up to Christmas. There was carol singing in two of the pubs in the parish – the Pigot Arms and the Dartmouth Arms – and also at Pattingham Club.
There was also the last Open the Book session of the term at Patting ham School and school end-of-term service.
New year message
To paraphrase the last paragraph of the churchwardens’ report it has been an amazing year and we are most grateful to the whole congregation and others for their hard work and support.
As we look forward to 2025, we hope through prayer we shall find a clear vision of God’s plan for us.
PCC members
The members of the PCC are:
Philip Sims (Chairman), Tony Ainsworth, Iain Coleman, Milly Colin-Stokes, Geoffrey Dann, Henry Ibberson, Clive Pendrell, Alan Smith, Dorothy Steel, Graham Tritton and Tracey Williams.