PCC Matters (and the future)
The PCC will next meet by Zoom on Tuesday 23rd February at 7.30pm – please pray for us as we continue to do our best to steer the parish as best we can in the current circumstances. At that meeting, we will review the situation in the light of government advice and data on infection rates etc to see if we can come up with a timetable for returning to worship in our buildings.
The PCC and I have been doing our best to maintain work on progressing the interim ministry objectives, some of which has inevitably been hampered by the pandemic. There are two main outstanding matters. The first is progressing a plan for the future of St Andrew’s church building; PCC members from Kildwick recently agreed to form a group to do this. The second is helping the new parish to articulate its identity and its mission priorities, to aid the PCC in drawing up a specification for the kind of person needed to serve as the next Vicar. I will be inviting congregation members to share their views via a questionnaire. If we are able to return to worshipping in our buildings before long, I will say more about this exercise then (if that’s not possible, I’ll progress the work through this newsletter, by e-mail and letters).
A future for St Andrew’s – an update on the recent community consultation
A huge thank you to all of you who took the time to respond to our recent community consultation exercise. It was great to welcome almost 100 members of the community into the church over two dark and damp evenings in October to share thoughts, concerns and support for the future of the building. A […]
St Andrew’s Church – a building for the future?
How can we secure a sustainable future for our wonderful and historic church building? It’s a question that members of St Andrew’s church have been grappling with for a long time. We love our church building, and we know that lots of other people do too. We want to make sure that our local community […]
St Andrew’s Church Building Working Group
St Andrew’s Church Building Working Group ‐ as you know, this group has been set up to consider how to secure a sustainable future for the church building and is being coordinated by Sue Booth, the diocesan Buildings for Mission officer. A number of you are already involved ‐ many thanks. In order to accommodate Sue’s diary and […]
Article from ‘The Bridge’ October 2017
Sponsor a Slate!
You’ve been sponsoring! We’ve not had a “mega-launch” of this scheme, but the total has just been quietly climbing. It is an idea that appeals to visitors, too. Their visit to our fine old church turns into a pilgrimage as they leave behind them a firm and solid mark of their visit and their appreciation of the peace and prayerfulness of the building.
One visitor has travelled all the way from Maryland in the USA (he is, in fact, a Canadian!) One of the main purposes of his trip was to look up evidence of his ancestor, one William Cockshott. William was a churchwarden and his name was inscribed on the treble of the old ring of six bells, cast in 1780. This inscription has been copied onto the 2nd bell of our current “new” ring (cast in 1914) and so we were able to take him up to the bell chamber to see the bell and photograph the inscription. His name will now join that of his ancestor in the fabric of St Andrew’s.
So far, we’ve raised nearly £2,000 – and quite a lot of that comes from the Government! Many of the donations are Gift-Aided, so some £340 is “free cash”!
What’s not to like?
