News Archive - August 2006

St Mary's Parochial Church Council Meeting

St Mary's PCC met on 13th July 2006, in the Coffee Tavern, since the usual venue of the All Saints' Dagnall church hall was out of action owing to continuing work to enlarge the accommodation.

Gordon Gray and his team were thanked for their hard work in ensuring the success of the 11th June Open Gardens event, as a result of which the PCC was able to authorise dispatch of a first instalment of £2000 to Kagando in Uganda - the Parish Project for the current year. Peter Bennett and his committee were also warmly congratulated for again organising the Carnival, which had proved such a huge success in spite of the conflict with the World Cup.

Work on St Mary's Church roof was reported to be on time, and would hopefully be completed in about a month, while the work to enlarge All Saints, Dagnall had started, and was forecast to end in October.

Ongoing projects included Sunday lunches; invitations for the first one, in the Eaton Bray Hall on 17th September, were expected to be issued shortly to some of the older, single members of the congregation. The Talent scheme was progressing well, and a coffee morning would be held in the Coffee Tavern on 9th September to sell gifts made by scheme members. Proceeds would go towards the Roof Fund, as would those from the Jazz evening to be held in the Church on 16th September and an evening of dance, in the village hall on 14th October. These, and other events would be included in the next newsletter, due out by the end of the month.

The meeting also discussed changes in the pattern of services at All Saints Dagnall, which would come into effect in December, and to the Christmas services at St Mary's, where the coincidence of Christmas Eve and Advent 4 on Sunday 24th December would cause bunching of services unless there was some refinement of the normal pattern. Further consultation would be carried out before details were finalised.

Finally, the PCC awarded itself a month off in August! The next meeting will therefore take place on 14th September, again in the Coffee Tavern.

The Church Mouse

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