Money & Property Matters – and Barry’s Babblings
We have been able to reflect upon the recent Festival of Flowers and, once again, it was a great success. Approaching 700 folk came along and the Ladies who Lunch members have decided to make a donation of £750 to the RNLI as well as making a donation to church projects. Once again, we convey many thanks to all who helped in any way to make for such a wonderful celebration.
As well as the preparations, and the actual Festival, it does take considerable effort to clear up and this takes almost the following week to achieve. Help is sometimes rather thin at this time but we managed everything in the end.
The Rother Table Tennis Club now meets in our hall every Monday early evening and this is good news. Thursday 4th July 2024 is Polling Day for the General Election and our hall is used as a Centre when many of our near neighbours pass through our facilities.
We have had a couple of Open Gardens when we assemble for tea and light refreshments and these are very pleasant occasions. We are delighted that our Minister has offered the Manse for such an afternoon and this will be on Friday July 19th from 2pm - do try and come along to the Manse. The next day the Carnival Quiz will be held in our hall.
One forward date to book is Saturday August 31st when there will be a Coffee Morning from 10am with a presentation play at 11am from Christian Voices. A similar event was held a while ago and proved very successful.
Two important property items are being considered. Firstly, the Audio Visual equipment is in need of upgrading and quotes are in hand and hopefully the work will soon commence.
Both our church, and Centenary House, suffer from damp in their buildings and a local firm has inspected the roof of both properties with the help of a drone! The results are both interesting and worrying and we will decide in due course what action needs to be taken.
The Churches Together in Bexhill group is hoping to arrange some open air hymn singing on the seafront in the near future so do look out for the posters, and try to support.
You may be interested to know that some of our folk (including me) are required to attend two training courses - namely 'Equality Diversity and Inclusion' and also 'Unconscious Bias' in the following weeks. Also, the exciting prospect of Christchurch having a Lay Community Worker is under review and has to be agreed by the Circuit Meeting as well as our own Church Council. Plenty is happening to keep us busy!
Have a wonderful summer break and, if possible, we look forward to seeing you at our weekly worship - every Sunday at 10.30am. Have a great summer break and enjoy the beauty of God's wonderful world.
Every blessing
Barry Turnwell, Church Treasurer and a Property Steward
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