**Croydon, Church of the Nazarene® CIO CN1161652 Next to 57 Lower Addiscombe Road** **Croydon CR0 6PQ** **Annual General Meeting Trustee Board Report** **AGM held on Sunday 30th January 2022 at 11am.** **All departmental reports were read, moved and adopted. A** **question time took place related to the work of the** **organisation.** **Trustees for the new church year were elected following church manual guidelines and procedures** Trustees elected to serve for 2022:Rev Edward Davis Miss Emma Davis Mr Paul Hall Mrs Margaret Shambare Mrs Angela Alexander Miss Victoria Davis Ms Busi Gumbi ## **AIMS** - To help promote the advancement of the Christian faith as part of the International Church of the Nazarene and the British Isles South District in Croydon Church of the Nazarene, Greater London. - To explore the Christian faith and to serve and enhance the local community ## **OBJECTIVES** - Hold weekly Sunday morning services for Christian worship, Holy Communion, prayer and Bible teaching to minister to the needs of the congregation - Special Church services, celebrations and events to mark key occasions such as Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, funerals and Christenings. - Hold weekly Prayer Meetings and Bible Studies - Hold weekly Sunday School - Make the church premises available to the community to hold afternoon Sunday services, weekly evening prayer meetings and weekly praise meetings. - The establishing of an Open Door ministry to serve the whole Addiscombe community - To raise awareness of the church among local businesses by doing a hot chocolate outreach at Christmas and Easter. (To begin again in Autumn 2022) - To provide lay members with in house training and online training to enable them to lead worship, preach and teach. - To maintain the church property and develop a small garden of remembrance at the side of the church hall. - To increase the church income by offering the church premises for use by the community willing to adhere to the Church’s aims and objectives. ## **PERFORMANCE** **With the COVID-19 restrictions being lifted in the past year we have begun again to establish all ministries and services of the organisation. This is taking more time than we first thought. Some people have not returned to the organisation others have taken a longer time to return. We have endeavoured to continue to work to fully establish all departments of the organisation.** - We have maintained regular attendance at Sunday services and been joined by new families - We have raised awareness of the church among local businesses and this has been appreciated by them and they look forward to the Christmas and Easter visits beginning again this year. They have came in to the Open Door ministry for a chat and hot drink. - We hope to continue weekly ministry through Sunday school to children and young people, this has been inactive for over two years because of COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to begin this in September 2022. We had several social functions in the last year, following COVID-19 guidelines to encourage the children and their families through the difficult time of the pandemic. All teaching staff have been registered with the DBS service and giving opportunity for training and development. - People are being developed to use their preaching and teaching ministry in the church. - We have tried to develop an Open Door ministry to several days a week instead of only a Monday evening. This has been well received by the community. People can drop in for a chat or reflection and prayer. People of all faiths and none call in with us at Open Door. We have developed a food bank as part of Open Door. We are partnered with CO-OP community scheme this year and have greatly benefited from their support. The numbers of people using the food bank have increased 100%. - The Monthly meal for senior adults to meet socially and help to stretch their budget has been inactive for over two years because of the COVID19 pandemic. We hope by the Autumn of 2022 to have this active again. We were able to have a few pot luck lunches following COVID-19 guidelines to enable people to socialise and share a meal together. - We were able to open the church premises to the whole community after COVID-19 restrictions were lifted. We have seen an increase in usage of the church premises by various organisations for educations classes, exercise classes, and local community information forums. A Local Resident Association also use the premises for their AGM and any necessary business meetings. The Trustees have met regularly and have developed plans and programmes to allow for church services and ministries to begin again after COVID-19 restrictions were lifted. The church sends representation to the Annual District Assembly and actions any directives from the District to ensure we align ourselves with the wider church policies. Our financial reports for the year are also attached. We are acutely aware of the financial situation that has developed over the last two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope that very soon our financial situation will be more stable. Emma Davis Church Secretary ## Income and Expenditure for the year to Croydon church of Nazarene ## Income Expenditure |Tithes and oferings|£6,503.20|Church| |---|---|---| |Gift aid|£8,936.69|Evangelical alliance| |||preaching| |Donations|£6,000.00|screen for church| |||gas| |Interest|£0.88|Electric| |||Water| |Heritage fund|£7,355.00|Insurance| |||fre inspection| |Budgets/Gasd|£314.98|CCLI license| |||Audit| |Christmas card sale|£42.00|fower fund| |||Sundry| |From deposit account|£1,000.00|| |proft b/f 2020|_£3,534.81_|| ## total ## Manse council tax insurance water bill gas/elect telephone ## total ## Minister Stipend net Tax/NI Expenses pension total Total Excess income over expenditure £33,687.56 ## 30.09.21 £90.00 £125.00 £90.69 £409.52 £183.90 £93.80 £1,448.86 £81.54 £122.00 £85.00 £175.00 £43.92 £2,949.23 £2,255.73 £849.54 £566.61 £1,538.57 £425.61 £5,636.06 £16,773.67 £3,357.13 £939.37 £998.28 £22,068.45 £30,653.74 £3,033.82 £33,687.56 raybrooke usiness Services inuum.co.uk e: sue@brdybr(x)ke.com t: 01689 824479 6 Tubbenden Lane Orpin8ton Kent BR6 9PN Croydon Church of Nazarene 573 LowerAddis¢offlbe Road Croydon CRO 6PQ 10 February 2022 To whom It may concem Thls Is to conflrn) that I have examlned the book5 and accounts for year ended 30 September 2020 for the Croydon thurth of Nazarene and slgned them off on the 10th February 2022 Yours falthfully Susan Braybnx>ke Dlrector Pony Number4885703