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← The Parochial Church Council Of The Ecclesiastical Parish Of Eston With Normanby

2023-12-31-accounts

APCM 2024

Wednesday 17[th] April in Christ Church

RECTOR’S REPORT

Last year was a very busy year, and as we look back over 2023 we have much to thank God for. I said last year that 2022 had been a year of restarting ministry after covid, and that 2023 would be a year to consolidate and bed in what we had begun again. And this is very much how the year has turned out. Although we didn’t imagine that we would be hosting quite so many funerals.

It might seem a strange thing to say but I think this is a good thing. I believe this is because it shows how much the community wishes to engage with and feels it can engage with the church when they are at their most vulnerable. It shows that we are a welcoming parish that understands the place of the parish church in the life of our community, and as our parish profile says: Christ Church is to be a beacon to the community and St George’s is an open door to the community. This we have truly been and will continue to be.

A big feature of 2023 has been the increasing contact with our local schools. I am in Teesville and Bankfields primary schools regularly to talk about our major festivals of Christmas, Easter, Lent and Harvest, and they come to our churches for harvest and Christmas services and concerts. We hosted the ‘No More Knives’ tour where nearly 200 youth from our high schools heard the Gospel message along with testimony and were given the opportunity to respond to the Gospel.

The Tuesday morning coffee morning is still buzzing, and Big Ted is thriving with lots of new people coming, this is our main source of baptism families. The need for our foodbank is continually growing. At Christmas we were blessed with donations from the Boro’ and Sainsburys, which was an answer to prayer as we were running out of food and the clients were still coming in.

We are supporting the deanery and wider church through being a placement parish for readers, where we had Ali Ward with us for three months and we supported the training of ordinands, when we hosted Pete Clark on placement over Easter. Furthermore, I was a mentor for a Stepping Up course member. I also hold the role of an Assistant Diocesan Director of Ordinands (ADDO). Where I am guiding someone along the path to training for ordination.

I was also asked to become a trustee of the ‘Jesus Shaped People’ (JSP) charity. Whose materials we have used to good effect. Apart from the quarterly meetings, I am an advocate for JSP in the Northeast.

We were invited to take part in the ‘Pray for Five’ initiative. That focused time of praying continues and brought several really helpful conversations with those we were praying for. Although two of my people have moved away, I’m not sure what that says about me!!!!

I am very pleased that it has been possible for Sarah to take on the role of treasurer at the beginning of the year. And we are extremely grateful to Ivan who continually stepped up in 2022 when needed. And for all the help and advice he gave to Sarah.

We held a gift day in the autumn, and the very generous donations kick started the building project in Christ Church. It is sad that a seven-week program has taken 6 months to complete. There is still more work to do, including the kitchen and heating for the hall, and the heating of St George’s needs addressing as well.

Here are some more highlights not mentioned elsewhere in the annual report:

I have continued to provide service cover at Ormsby during their interregnum, they are very grateful to the parish for sharing me. I continue to support Father Glyn, our area dean, by being on the deanery leadership team.

Again, I wish to thank each and every one of you for all you do at Christ Church and St George’s. There will be opportunities through the coming year for you to use your gifts and become involved in new ministries as we continue to grow our congregations.

Your support on Sundays and helping to run and coming to the many events that are provided makes this a community that is welcoming and caring, as we all become more ‘Jesus Shaped’.

Every Blessing to you all.

Rev Graham Potter Rector, Christ Church & St George’s

FABRIC REPORTS FROM THE WARDENS

CHRIST CHURCH

Christ Church on the 22[nd] of March 2024 turned 140 years old. In general the main structure of the church is in good repair, Clean and maintained, with the exception of the Roof which still needs work carrying out as per the 2019 quinquennial report,

Work undertaken,

  1. Annual inspection of Heaters and fire Extinguishers have been carried out

  2. kitchen improvements project in the church hall has increased in scope, after the initial inspection identified a number of issues with water ingress throughout the hall building, these needed to be rectified before any work on the installation of Kitchen can begin, this work under the supervision of our architect and project manager Zgy. has started and nears completion. There have been a number of delays due to the schedule of works not being followed correctly but these have/are being corrected.

  3. Church window, a section of one of the large window at the rear of the church, lead beading and solder joints failed during some of the winter gales resulting in a section of the window coming away leaving a section of approximately 24in x 32in missing and the church open to the elements, services have been secured by a window specialist to repair.

  4. Over the last 12 months there have been a number of work/cleaning session arranged which has help keep the general housekeeping of the main building at a reasonable level.

Items of concern

  1. As per last year’s Fabric report the Main Church Roof – still has seen no action since the 2019 quinquennial report, there have been several storms since the report, which has seen further tiles being dislodged, however there are no signs of water ingress but the risk of unseen/unreported damage and future water ingress remain (as discovered with the church hall). Action to progress this issue is needed and consideration over finical implications and provision explored.

  2. As per last year’s Fabric report The Heating system in church is over 25 years old (installed 1997), and the units are now obsolete and service kits are no longer obtainable. 3 heaters are isolated due to not having adequate flu systems. One heater in the hall has a fault causing it to constantly trip out. All other heaters continue to operate and carbon monoxide monitors install as an additional safety measure. The heating system is only going to deteriorate further with no service kits available, so will need to be replaced/renew in the near future. So planning and provision needs to be taken into consideration in the coming years.

  3. As per last year’s Fabric report main Church Windows – Several windows are showing signs of deterioration, with discolouration, cracks in the glass, and some small pieces missing. One windows (nave right side upper level) its opener has dropped leaving a permanent opening. One year on and this has still not been repaired/closed. The quinquennial report recommends inspection by Glazing specialist to understand the full extent of the condition of the lead and glass of the windows, and as we have seen this year with the repairs to the large window at the rear of Church, these window are continuing to deteriorate. And some form of inspection and repair work needs to be implemented.

Hall - The hall is not part of the quinquennial report and not part of the Grade two listed status of the Church. The hall was built in 1908

  1. Most of the issues facing the hall (Roof, Windows, decorating, Kitchen) are being progressed through the repairs and kitchen improvements project detailed in point 2 of work undertaken.

Jason Robinson,

Church warden

ST GEORGE’S

Internally the building is in good order.

Our Verger Keith Hill has made regular repairs and maintained lighting, fire alarms, heating and toilets throughout the year. A big thank you to him and Margaret

The Quinquennial Report which has brought up some issues which will need to be dealt with, but internally we are confident with the buildings condition. We will continue to work through the report and repair all that is required. Last year the hall and kitchen was redecorated, thank you for those who helped us.

Issues needing attention:

Mike Cawley, Church Warden

SAFEGUARDING

T he PCC has complied with its duty under section 5 of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 (duty to have regard to the House of Bishops’ Guidance on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults).

TREASURER’S REPORT

Attached as Appendix 1.

SYNOD REPORT

Deanery synod met three times during the year. With each synod beginning with an overview of two parishes within the deanery.

The deanery free will offer for 2023 was £316,247 of which 99.9% was paid, just £326 short of the offer. This was an incredible offer due to the economic profile of most parishes in the deanery.

70 free digital giving machines were made available to York diocese. We were successful in obtaining one of these for use in Christ Church.

Archdeacon Amanda gave an overview of the upcoming Archdeacon visitations, which are a legal requirement every 5 years, these visitations are to promote and encourage conversations around any questions or issues that might arise in the running of a parish. These could be questions about the buildings, the context, the people of the parish, hopes, dreams, fears, worries, anything for which support and help might be wanted or needed.

Church Wardens would get a list of areas to include in these conversations simply in order to speed up the process. It is a case of checking those things which need doing are being done in order to save potential troublesome issues further down the line. It is also part of the process to get to know each other, to share successes

as well as concerns. In addition, it is an opportunity to talk about the vision of each parish and to think of ways in which we can all work well together moving forward.

Our visitations are in May and June.

The deanery leadership team has been reformed and now has 8 members. Including Rev graham Potter as a clergy member.

Rev Graham potter,

Rector, Christ Church & St George’s

ELECTORAL ROLLS

Christ Church

The Revised Roll stands at 36.

One member has gone to glory and another has left the Church.

St George’s

The Revised Roll stands at 93.

Four members have gone to glory and two have left the Church. 4 new members have been added.

CHURCH GROUPS’ REPORTS

Big Ted

As we look back over the last year –

As we look forward, we hope to –

Marian Lester

Christ Church Tabletop Sales

We have had another very successful year of Tabletop sales, thanks to our wonderful supporters who provide such good quality goods for resale, and of course tombola prizes. Thank you to you all.

Due to the commencement of works to the hall part way through the year, it has been necessary to change the venue to the Church itself. Whilst this has been daunting, and indeed has involved much extra work in both planning and setting up, we have been truly blessed: our visitors have enjoyed being in Church, have stayed longer for refreshments than they ever have in the hall, and for those who don't attend Church regularly they have had an opportunity to see just how amazing our Church building is. It has been very much admired which fills us with such a sense of pride.

Attendances have increased month on month and the fellowship has been humbling as always. New friendships have been formed - between visitors getting to know each other in a relaxed and warm atmosphere, and between ourselves and visitors. It is especially touching to hear comments regarding the warm welcome we provide each month.

For the future, and with God's help, we will continue doing what we do best, with appreciation to everyone who helps in so many ways.

Julia Fotheringham and the Tabletop Team

Coffee Mornings - Christ Church

Attendances at Tuesday coffee mornings have increased far beyond our expectations over the year, and especially with visitors from the local community. Word gets around! Everyone seems to have a happy time and - standing in the kitchen preparing refreshments - it is wonderful to hear the laughter and fun, not to mention the odd sing along with Sue, Zyg and Stephen who very kindly provide the music. It is very much appreciated. - a very big thank you to the three of you.

All of our visitors are aware that, should they need it, prayer or just a quiet private conversation is always available to them and the uptake would indicate that it is a comfortable place in which to seek this.

Going forward, and with God's help, we hope to increase our numbers: in this year the weekly record has been seventy-nine adults, five children and three dogs. It has been mentioned that we might run out of space but no, we have contingency plans! In 2024 the knit and natter group has been formed and perhaps during 2024 other groups will follow.

Thank you to everyone who supports or helps in any way. This is such an important outreach in so many ways.

Julia Fotheringham and the Coffee Morning Team

Coffee Mornings – St George’s

Friday coffee morning continues to be busy alongside Foodbank. We have quite a few regulars who enjoy crafts, games and/or pool and we are always open to ideas for new activities .

Numbers of Church members coming along have dropped over the last year and our prayer is that we will see numbers increase in 2024.

We continue to provide a warm welcome serving sandwiches as well as the usual tea coffee and biscuits and the welcoming atmosphere is often commented on by people who visit for the Foodbank.

Joy Brunskill

Foodbank

2023 has been our busiest yet and we have now become the busiest centre in Redcar and Cleveland. Between January and December we gave out food parcels to 826 people – when their families are included, we actually fed 1741 people. On the Friday before Christmas, demand was so great that we ran out of food twice but on each occasion, God had gone before us and donations miraculously came in to stock up the things we had run out of!

WE are very grateful for the generous support of members of Christ Church and St George’s as well as other Churches in the Parish. Without all of you it would not be possible to provide the help that we do, Thank you.

Our prayer needs in 2024 are:

Alan Brunskill

Friendship Group

We are a group of people, mainly living on our own, who get together socially with the aim of going on days out, for example to the theatre, cinema and meals out, for which we have received funding from the Council.

We have met regularly throughout 2023, sometimes in church and sometimes on outings, all of which we have really enjoyed. We also shared a meal together. Colin Tinsley

House

HOUSE is a mixed group of mainly 25-45 year old's. People from both churches attend. We meet each Monday or Tuesday at St Georges to fellowship together. What do we do? We vary the nights with Bible study, movie nights, Costa coffee nights are a good way of relationship building, and of course meals out together if we can.

Due to lack of numbers, we aren’t meeting as regularly as we would like. As a result, if anyone, young at heart would like to join us, please contact me. We’d love to be blessed by older experienced Christians to help us grow, and become more rounded as a group.

We care for and support each other as we meet, and cover each other with prayer and keep in touch via our Facebook page.

Mike Cawley

Ladies’ Fellowship

We meet each week in a member’s home where we receive Bible-based teachings and enjoy occasional faith meals together. We enjoy outings where members are given lifts to venues when needed, garden parties, and fellowship. A time of prayer is included where members of the congregation are prayed for in addition to our own members. Additionally, people can be prayed for via our Prayer Chain.

We look forward in prayer to our Unity Service to which all the churches in the area have been invited and pray that we may all be blessed. We pray that we will continue to have the health, strength and transport to continue in fellowship, study and other activities that we enjoy and engage in.

Pat Wetherell

Men’s Fellowship

We have met about 10 times this year and have built up a nice but small group with games, food and also some sharing of our faith. I would like to thank Zyg, Steve and Craig for their input and encouragement. I look forward to continuing the group this year.

Alan Brunskill

Music Group

As we look back over the last year –

As we look forwards, we hope to

Marian Lester

Powerpoint Club

Margaret Hill & the Powerpoint Team We have had another great year with our group. Powerpoint club has now been running for 31 years. We have been so blessed with all the leaders who have a love for our children. We have our moments with behaviours sometimes, but with prayers thing are so much improved.

We thank God for all the wonderful times we have with these children. Thank you for all our people who keep us in prayer.

Margaret Hill

Sewing Group

The sewing group is still going well, we have had some lovely afternoons together . We celebrated Sarah’s birthday with a lovely afternoon tea.

We look forward to new people joining us this year .

Margaret Hill

Small Study Groups

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We meet weekly in church on a Tuesday afternoon. We enjoy fellowship; learning about the Lord; praying together and listening to music.

Meeting regularly enables us to encourage and support each other as we grow into the people the Lord made us to be.

We'd love to welcome new people.

Margaret Massey-Vickers

We have had some interesting study evenings with the Beacon group. We have worked our way through some really great studies: after finishing off the Fruits of the Spirit studies we began in 2022, we looked at how to find hope, fulfilment and peace through The Cross before joining the whole church in The Spirit Filled Church series. We finished the year looking at ‘Life With Jesus’ a series of studies which aim to give practical ideas on how we and our church can better live our lives as disciples of Jesus.

In between the study evenings we had some very good praise and prayer evenings, thanks to Zyg, as well as social/fun nights which included quizzes, an evening of carols and a trip to the panto (oh yes we did!).

All in all it’s been a great year of fun, friendship and growing in our faith. We’re looking forward to what the Lord has in store for the coming year for us all.

Margaret Hill and Carol McIntosh

Our meetings have been slightly fewer this year with Tuesdays being called on for other meetings, but our time together continues to be a special time in the

week where we continue to enjoy our Bible study & prayer, and giving care and support to each other.

We provided a meal for the Alpha course which took place on a Tuesday, with our group moved to another area for the duration of the course.

A visit to the pantomime was enjoyed by those who were able to go and we joined with Beacon group to enjoy at meal and sing carols before the Christmas break.

Bryn Clarkson

As is the norm for our group we continued to have a time of fellowship, study and prayer each week generously hosted by Pat and Ivan Wetherell.

At the start of this review period we were studying Philippians on a stop/start basis. The first stop came in May when we began the Spirit Filled Church series of studies, which took us up to the start of our summer break.

In September we began to meet together again kicking off with a faith meal/social catch up and then picked up where we had left off in Philippians. Very quickly our exploration raised the question “Why is it important to go to church?” Philippians was stopped again while we looked at that. And then two stand-alone studies led by Margaret Pallent on the Tribes of Israel and Women’s Inheritance Rights.

Studying Philippians started again during November and continued until our Christmas break. Which included a very enjoyable meal at the Poverina.

Studying Philippians again kicked off in early January and reached its conclusion in mid Feb (a mere 11 months after starting it). We celebrated this monumental event with a relaxing faith meal.

Currently we are working diligently through the Cross Shaped Jesus studies that we started for Lent. We made a group decision that we wouldn’t try to squeeze them all in before Easter, but that we would work our way through them in the time that we felt that they needed. Hopefully we will have our Lent studies completed before Christmas!

Merle Leighton has joined our group this year immediately making a valuable contribution. Which brings our regular attending members to seven.

There have been a number of medical issues that have affected our members through the year and our list of prayer needs seems to be getting ever longer. May God use the times that we pray for each other to bond us closer together.

Stephen Street

Stepping Up

During 2023, Margaret Hill, Dianne Colbert, Alan Brunskill and I completed the Stepping Up programme and were licensed in May as Community Ministers. Elaine Marley joined the 2023 programme in the spring; and in September PCC gave approval for Liam Hopkins to join the 2023/4 programme.

Stepping Up is a Diocesan project run by Mustard Seed to increase lay ministries in local churches by ‘growing disciples in places where life is tough.’ For 12 months, we met together regularly with Jonny Hedges, the Stepping Up leader, and Rose and Carol from other Parishes to learn to listen to God, listen to other people and listen to ourselves as we tried to discern the new ministries God is calling us into. For Margaret, that is a Listening group for the bereaved; for Dianne it is a pastoral care group; for Alan it is a men’s group; and for me it was to become part of the preaching team. For Elaine and Liam – that will be in next year’s report!

It was a wonderful experience and I’d recommend it to anyone who believes God may be calling them to serve Him and isn’t quite sure how that might be yet. Carol McIntosh

Sunday School

Sadly, the number of Sunday school age children has dropped over the last year, which is disappointing, but we pray that more children will come and that we will see growth in 2024. We would value your prayers for that.

Martin and myself lead the group with help from Josie, Margaret J, Barbara and Bryn. Every week we make sure that the children have fun with some teaching based on the Bible and activities that they enjoy. Even though the numbers are currently low, it’s a great privilege to be a part of this ministry and we ask you to keep us in your prayers.

Joy Brunskill

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