The APCM is the time to elect churchwardens and PCC members, consider the annual accounts and the annual report and to begin to look forward to the future. It also gives members of the congregation the opportunity to share their views and to ask questions.
Two big issues that got an airing today were our buildings and the future staffing for our united benefice, but perhaps even more important than that is our spiritual life as a congregation and our mission to the community and that's why at the end of the meeting I came back to our motto for the year:
‘I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love, so that you...may have the
power to understand how broad and long, how high and deep is
Christ’s love.’ Eph 3.17-18
Our churches, like every church, need to put their roots down deeply in Christ's love - that says something about deepening our spiritual lives - and then that love needs to go wider into the community as we reach out with the love of Christ to those who do not yet know him.
We will be able to think a bit more how we do that in practice at our joint PCC dayaway in a couple of week's time - at the Salmon Youth Centre.
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