Annual Church Meeting
Next Sunday (March 11th 2007) is the Annual Church Meeting to which all on the electoral roll are invited.This will take place immediately after the morning service and will be a short meeting. Most of the reports are now available at the back of church for you to read and there will be an opportunity to ask questions at the meeting. “Reports” and “elections” may not be words that excite you but I challenge you to think again.
The “reports” are a true celebration of the life of a vibrant church – did you know how the Guides are flourishing? They also inform us of areas of concern, such as finance. As for “elections”, have you ever considered serving on Church Council? If you want to be involved, make your views known, why not stand for election?
As Paul reminds us in his first letter to the church at Corinth: “There are different ways of serving God, but it is the same Lord who is served.God works through different men in different ways, but it is the same God who achieves his purposes through them all. Each man is given his gift by the Spirit that he may use it for the common good”. (J.B.Phillips) Paul goes on to say in more than one letter to the early church, that the church is one body made up of many parts. All parts are needed to make the whole function.
Church council meetings are on a Thursday, five or six times a year – not a huge commitment. Even if this is not for you, do please stay next Sunday so that you know what is going on behind the scenes as well as visibly in the life of St. Martin’s. The body can’t function without all the parts – and that means you!
Liz Dunthorne
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