St John’s Church, Flixton
Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021
Priest in Charge: No Priest in charge
Curate in charge: Rev Debra Blair
Bank : The Royal Bank of Scotland, 9 Crofts Bank Road, Urmston, Manchester, M41 0TZ.
Independent Examiner: Mr John Holdsworth
The Parochial Church Council of St. John’s Church, Flixton, (PCC) has the responsibility of cooperating with the priest in charge in promoting within the parish the mission of the Church of England.
Membership
The PCC is a registered charity, no. 1180125. Members are either ex-officio or elected by the annual parochial church meeting in accordance with the Church Representation Rules.
During the year the following served as members of the PCC:
Graham Dey, churchwarden until 23.5.21 Robert Beale, churchwarden Geoff Andreassen, church warden from 23.5.21 Pat Beale, reader emeritus Joyce Gardner, reader emeritus Carol Cosham, deanery synod representative Janice Mortimer, deanery synod representative The Rev Rodney Green, OLM, associate minister The Rev Maureen Surrey, OLM until 31[st] January 2021 The Rev. Nick Watson from 5.6.21
Elected members up to APCM 2021 : Brian Allsop, Geoff Andreassen, Neil Barnes, Michelle Byrne, Angela Easdon, Gill Hampson, Carol Hatton, Aileen Haywood, Matthew Thorne. Elected members from APCM 2021 : Brian Allsop, Geoff Andreassen, Neil Barnes, Michelle Byrne, Angela Easdon, Carol Hatton, Matthew Thorne, Sue Thatcher, Andrea Lester.
The Treasurer was Michelle Byrne The Secretary was Angela Easdon The Vice-Chairman was Robert Beale
| St Johns Financial Statement 2021 Category Unrestricted Mission & general fundMinistry Fund (Restricted) Receipts £ £ Tax efficient giving (Gift Aid) 1 31412.00 0.00 Other Planned Giving 2 2677.00 0.00 Other Cash Collections at services 3 5198.02 0.00 Mission and Ministry Fund 105 0.00 360.00 Non-recurring Donations 5 16144.97 0.00 Tax Recovered from Gift Aid 6 11379.53 0.00 Total Direct Giving 66811.52 360.00 Other Income Interest from bank 10 24.08 0.00 Interest from bank - deposit a/c 10 0.03 0.00 Interest from bank - CCLA a/c 10 22.21 0.00 PCC fees 11 456.00 0.00 Income from trading -Hall Rents 12 11420.00 0.00 Income from trading -Book unit 12 196.80 0.00 Other income: loans, book sales etc 13 0.00 0.00 Total Receipts 78930.64 360.00 Payments Tithes & donations 18 5684.00 0.00 OVID appeals-Barnabas &Christian Aid 18 4500.00 0.00 Parish Share 19 30322.38 0.00 Clergy Expenses 21 174.25 0.00 Printing, publicity & Mission Expenses 22 189.00 0.00 Church Running Expenses 23 14243.87 0.00 Utility Bills (Church & Hall) 24 3084.17 0.00 Cost of trading Church Hall 25 2660.96 0.00 Cost of trading book unit 25 157.13 0.00 Governance costs 26 150.00 0.00 Major repairs to Church 27 10042.11 0.00 Other Major repairs 28 8107.20 0.00 Total Payments 79315.07 0.00 Surplus/deficit -384.43 360.00 |
Total funds 2021 £ 31412.00 2677.00 5198.02 360.00 16144.97 11379.53 67171.52 24.08 0.03 22.21 456.00 11420.00 196.80 0.00 79290.64 5684.00 4500.00 30322.38 174.25 189.00 14243.87 3084.17 2660.96 157.13 150.00 10042.11 8107.20 79315.07 -24.43 |
Total funds 2020 £ 36313.00 2109.00 3341.00 0.00 2271.29 10804.43 54838.72 24.29 0.04 172.06 97.00 14936.00 15.69 0.00 70083.80 8500.00 0.00 29410.00 0.00 40.59 7500.72 3358.12 507.29 40.11 150.00 4212.00 10382.40 64101.23 |
|---|---|---|
| 5982.57 |
Note: Church and hall expenses and utility bills are bound up with each other because of shared items (insurance, cleaning, gas, electricity, water, fire extinguisher servicing, PAT testing), but if hall expenses were to be stated separately we estimate that £2,467 would be added in 2021 to Hall Costs of Trading and subtracted from Utility Bills, and a further £2,750 would be added to Hall Costs of Trading and subtracted from Church Running Expenses
Note: transactions by PCC as agent
| Receipts Sequestration and fees to Diocese Payments Sequestration and fees to Diocese Inclusive total receipts Inclusive total payments Inclusive surplus/deficit |
2284.91 0.00 2495.53 0.00 81215.55 360.00 81810.60 0.00 -595.05 360.00 |
2284.91 2495.53 81575.55 81810.60 -235.05 |
1418.89 1425.89 71502.69 65527.12 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5975.57 |
| Sponsorship Fund (restricted) 2021 Receipts Standing Orders Deposits Gift Aid Reclaim Interest Total receipts Payments Compassion Sponsorship Other Total payments Surplus/deficit Balance as at 1st Jan Balance as at 31st Dec |
£ 782.00 13.00 25.00 0.30 820.30 742.00 742.00 78.30 578.67 656.97 |
2020 £ 732.00 52.50 0.48 784.98 1129.00 1129.00 |
2020 £ 732.00 52.50 0.48 784.98 |
|---|---|---|---|
| -344.02 922.69 578.67 |
| Book Unit Account 2021 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Receipts | ||
| Income from sales | 196.80 | 15.69 |
| Total Receipts | 196.80 | 15.69 |
| Payments | ||
| Maranatha | 157.13 | 40.11 |
| Total payments | 157.13 | 40.11 |
| Surplus/deficit | 39.67 | -24.42 |
| Cash In hand & current account 1st Jan | 1383.11 | 1407.53 |
| Cash In hand & current account 31st Dec | 1422.78 | 1383.11 |
| Value of stock at year end | 500.00 | 500.00 |
St John's Church, Flixton. Statement of assets and liabilities as at 31 December 2021
| John's Church, Flixton. Statement of assets and liabilities as at 31 December 2021 UNRESTRICTED FUNDS Current High Interest CCLA Book Unit Assets £ £ £ £ Bank accounts total 38194 172 50717 1423 Stock 500 Sequestration (incl. money due from diocese) 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 38194 172 50717 1923 Liabilities Uncashed cheques 3312 Cash held as agent 0 Gift Aid due to Sponsorship A/C 46 Loans 0 Sequestration (incl. fees due to diocese) 0 TOTAL 3358 Net Assets 34836 172 50717 1923 RESTRICTED FUNDS M & M Sponsorship Assets Bank Account 360 657 Debtors 0 46 TOTAL 360 703 Liabilities Debtors 0 0 TOTAL 0 0 Net Assets 360 703 TOTAL FUNDS Net Assets 35196 172 50717 1923 703 |
2021 Totals £ 90506 500 0 91006 3312 0 46 0 0 3358 87648 Totals 1017 46 1063 0 0 1063 88711 |
2020 Totals £ 87788 500 0 88288 0 0 0 3750 199 3949 84339 £ 579 0 579 0 0 0 579 84918 |
|---|---|---|
NOTE
Trafford Heart and Stroke Club have kindly cancelled the balance of the outstanding loan
Review of the year 2021
A service was held in church on the 3[rd] of January but then with Covid rates rising the Government re-imposed lockdown, so our church building was closed again. We were back to holding our services online. PCC meetings were held on zoom.
On 31st Rev. Mo Surrey laid down her licence at St John’s and has taken up a new licence called ‘Permission to Officiate’. She is longer based at St John’s but will be available able to preach and lead worship across Anglican churches in Manchester. We said goodbye and a heartfelt thanks to the Rev Mo Surrey for all that she has done for St John’s.
We held a 6 week Lent course on zoom called “the power of the cross”
We were able to open the church on the 14[th] March to celebrate Mothering Sunday. We still had to adhere to social distancing, track and trace, wearing of masks, seated services, communion of one kind but it was wonderful to be able to worship God together again. Our ministry team have worked extremely hard and have continued to provide an on-line weekly service for those unable to attend church.
The 23[rd] March was a National day of reflection and prayer. St John’s was open for a time of quiet reflection followed by a short service of readings, music and prayers, and a chance to remember those we had lost to Covid. We remembered fondly our dear sister Ann Robinson who died of Covid in February. A special collection was set up in her memory, a bench has been purchased with this money sited in the Garden of Rest. Our Mother’s Prayers group of which Ann was a member, planted a rose in the Garden of Rest in memory of Ann. Mothers Prayers is a Nationwide charity formed to help those mothers who wish to pray together for their children and grandchildren and to find the support they need.
A day by day Holy week was held online with a reading, reflection, and song for each day of Holy week. It contained recorded readings by our own church members and video reflections by Rev Debra and Rev Rodney Green. A quiet service was held on Maundy Thursday. We were still unable to do a walk of witness on Good Friday due to covid. A Good Friday event was put on the website. Easter was celebrated in church. Messy Easter church had to be put on the website due to covid. Members of our congregation together with Flixton fellowship. knitted, crocheted flowers which decorated a cross outside Flixton house as a visual celebration of Easter in Flixton
Thursday 13[th] May we held a special evening service to celebrate Ascension Day. Mission Communities were formed with St. John’s forming a community with St. Michael’s, St. Mary’s, Christ church, St. Clements, All Saints and St Matthew’s. The Rev Nick Watson has been appointed as the new Area Dean of South Manchester and Stretford, and we are delighted that he and his wife, Joanna, have made St John’s Vicarage their new home. Rev. Nick was licensed to his new role at Manchester Cathedral on the 6[th] June. On 27th June we were delighted to meet Nick and his wife Joanna at our Sunday morning service and to hear a bit about their own road to faith, their family, and their hopes for the future. Reverend Nick (who is now licensed to St John’s as an ‘assistant curate), is in overall charge of us and 40 other churches! Sunday school started again on the 2[nd] May with covid restrictions in place. Sunday school has been renamed JC Squad (Junior Church Squad) at the request of the children. We held our APCM on the 16[th] May in church with social distancing in place. An evening of Faith, Fellowship and Future was planned for the 24[th] June but had to be postponed until 5[th] August due to Covid restrictions’. Rev. Debra collated the suggestions put
forwards at this meeting. These have been implemented where possible, covid restrictions allowing.
On Thursday 16[th] September our evening house groups resumed with the addition of a Thursday afternoon house group led by Rev. Debra. The Monday evening prayer meeting started again on the 6[th] September
We held a workday on the 29[th] May and one on Saturday 11th September when we filled a skip with the accumulated hedge and shrub pruning’s from the bottom of the back field. A men’s meeting was held on Monday 27th September with a meal at the Bird in Hand pub where the men were also able to meet the Rev James Spence of Christ Church Davyhulme. We held an All-Age service on Sunday 3rd October which was our Harvest Thanksgiving. Harvest gifts were passed on to the Booth Centre in Manchester. We re-started our good news slot in the Sunday morning service on 10[th] Oct. Angela Easdon has completed a module in Pastoral Care and Listening.
A team of people volunteered to visit De Brook Lodge old people’s home for a Prayer Fellowship service there once a month. This has been enjoyed by residents and volunteers alike.
We decided to join with St Michael’s Flixton to hold a service of Holy Communion on Thursday mornings, alternating our venue between St Michael’s and St John’s. The first joint service was on Thursday 7[th] October at St John’s.
On 21[st] November, we had a great celebratory day –the festival of Christ the King – which also marked the 1 year anniversary of Rev. Debra being licensed to serve at St John’s Our worship group was able to meet and practice again and sing together at our Carol service on 19[th] Dec. Money collected at this service was donated to Francis House. Wellacre Academy cancelled their carol service in church due to Covid, but Rev. Debra was invited into school. Acre Hall school came into church with one class only for a Christingle service. We again collected shoe boxes full of gifts for children for Samaritan’s Purse.
A special Messy Church page for Christmas was put on St John’s website, with ideas for crafts, things to download and print, videos to watch and songs to enjoy. ‘Messy Church in a bag’ were delivered by Rev. Rodney and Elizabeth to children known to us to use at home. We were able to hold a Crib service on Christmas Eve and celebrate together in church on Christmas day with a 10.30am service.
Our ministers have taken 4 funerals in St John’s church during 2021.
St John’s PCC have dealt with a variety of matters this year, including:
-
We have built a GDPR-compliant list of email addresses for use in sharing information about St John’s, with access limited to the clergy, churchwardens, and parish secretary .
-
We agreed to renew our ‘Special Collection’ this year to help those affected by the Covid pandemic, and Christian work relieving their need, in parts of the world most badly affected by Covid.
-
Matt Thorne and Graham Dey informed the PCC that they would like to start a Football club at St. John’s with the support of Ambassadors for Football for the 1[st] year. There would be a Christian message at each training session. The PCC agreed to support this exciting new venture
-
The PCC decided to set up a restricted fund within our financial structure called the St John’s Fund for Mission and Ministry.
St John’s Church, Flixton
Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021
Priest in Charge: No Priest in charge
Curate in charge: Rev Debra Blair
Bank : The Royal Bank of Scotland, 9 Crofts Bank Road, Urmston, Manchester, M41 0TZ.
Independent Examiner: Mr John Holdsworth
The Parochial Church Council of St. John’s Church, Flixton, (PCC) has the responsibility of cooperating with the priest in charge in promoting within the parish the mission of the Church of England.
Membership
The PCC is a registered charity, no. 1180125. Members are either ex-officio or elected by the annual parochial church meeting in accordance with the Church Representation Rules.
During the year the following served as members of the PCC:
Graham Dey, churchwarden until 23.5.21 Robert Beale, churchwarden Geoff Andreassen, church warden from 23.5.21 Pat Beale, reader emeritus Joyce Gardner, reader emeritus Carol Cosham, deanery synod representative Janice Mortimer, deanery synod representative The Rev Rodney Green, OLM, associate minister The Rev Maureen Surrey, OLM until 31[st] January 2021 The Rev. Nick Watson from 5.6.21
Elected members up to APCM 2021 : Brian Allsop, Geoff Andreassen, Neil Barnes, Michelle Byrne, Angela Easdon, Gill Hampson, Carol Hatton, Aileen Haywood, Matthew Thorne. Elected members from APCM 2021 : Brian Allsop, Geoff Andreassen, Neil Barnes, Michelle Byrne, Angela Easdon, Carol Hatton, Matthew Thorne, Sue Thatcher, Andrea Lester.
The Treasurer was Michelle Byrne The Secretary was Angela Easdon The Vice-Chairman was Robert Beale
| St Johns Financial Statement 2021 Category Unrestricted Mission & general fundMinistry Fund (Restricted) Receipts £ £ Tax efficient giving (Gift Aid) 1 31412.00 0.00 Other Planned Giving 2 2677.00 0.00 Other Cash Collections at services 3 5198.02 0.00 Mission and Ministry Fund 105 0.00 360.00 Non-recurring Donations 5 16144.97 0.00 Tax Recovered from Gift Aid 6 11379.53 0.00 Total Direct Giving 66811.52 360.00 Other Income Interest from bank 10 24.08 0.00 Interest from bank - deposit a/c 10 0.03 0.00 Interest from bank - CCLA a/c 10 22.21 0.00 PCC fees 11 456.00 0.00 Income from trading -Hall Rents 12 11420.00 0.00 Income from trading -Book unit 12 196.80 0.00 Other income: loans, book sales etc 13 0.00 0.00 Total Receipts 78930.64 360.00 Payments Tithes & donations 18 5684.00 0.00 OVID appeals-Barnabas &Christian Aid 18 4500.00 0.00 Parish Share 19 30322.38 0.00 Clergy Expenses 21 174.25 0.00 Printing, publicity & Mission Expenses 22 189.00 0.00 Church Running Expenses 23 14243.87 0.00 Utility Bills (Church & Hall) 24 3084.17 0.00 Cost of trading Church Hall 25 2660.96 0.00 Cost of trading book unit 25 157.13 0.00 Governance costs 26 150.00 0.00 Major repairs to Church 27 10042.11 0.00 Other Major repairs 28 8107.20 0.00 Total Payments 79315.07 0.00 Surplus/deficit -384.43 360.00 |
Total funds 2021 £ 31412.00 2677.00 5198.02 360.00 16144.97 11379.53 67171.52 24.08 0.03 22.21 456.00 11420.00 196.80 0.00 79290.64 5684.00 4500.00 30322.38 174.25 189.00 14243.87 3084.17 2660.96 157.13 150.00 10042.11 8107.20 79315.07 -24.43 |
Total funds 2020 £ 36313.00 2109.00 3341.00 0.00 2271.29 10804.43 54838.72 24.29 0.04 172.06 97.00 14936.00 15.69 0.00 70083.80 8500.00 0.00 29410.00 0.00 40.59 7500.72 3358.12 507.29 40.11 150.00 4212.00 10382.40 64101.23 |
|---|---|---|
| 5982.57 |
Note: Church and hall expenses and utility bills are bound up with each other because of shared items (insurance, cleaning, gas, electricity, water, fire extinguisher servicing, PAT testing), but if hall expenses were to be stated separately we estimate that £2,467 would be added in 2021 to Hall Costs of Trading and subtracted from Utility Bills, and a further £2,750 would be added to Hall Costs of Trading and subtracted from Church Running Expenses
Note: transactions by PCC as agent
| Receipts Sequestration and fees to Diocese Payments Sequestration and fees to Diocese Inclusive total receipts Inclusive total payments Inclusive surplus/deficit |
2284.91 0.00 2495.53 0.00 81215.55 360.00 81810.60 0.00 -595.05 360.00 |
2284.91 2495.53 81575.55 81810.60 -235.05 |
1418.89 1425.89 71502.69 65527.12 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5975.57 |
| Sponsorship Fund (restricted) 2021 Receipts Standing Orders Deposits Gift Aid Reclaim Interest Total receipts Payments Compassion Sponsorship Other Total payments Surplus/deficit Balance as at 1st Jan Balance as at 31st Dec |
£ 782.00 13.00 25.00 0.30 820.30 742.00 742.00 78.30 578.67 656.97 |
2020 £ 732.00 52.50 0.48 784.98 1129.00 1129.00 |
2020 £ 732.00 52.50 0.48 784.98 |
|---|---|---|---|
| -344.02 922.69 578.67 |
| Book Unit Account 2021 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Receipts | ||
| Income from sales | 196.80 | 15.69 |
| Total Receipts | 196.80 | 15.69 |
| Payments | ||
| Maranatha | 157.13 | 40.11 |
| Total payments | 157.13 | 40.11 |
| Surplus/deficit | 39.67 | -24.42 |
| Cash In hand & current account 1st Jan | 1383.11 | 1407.53 |
| Cash In hand & current account 31st Dec | 1422.78 | 1383.11 |
| Value of stock at year end | 500.00 | 500.00 |
St John's Church, Flixton. Statement of assets and liabilities as at 31 December 2021
| John's Church, Flixton. Statement of assets and liabilities as at 31 December 2021 UNRESTRICTED FUNDS Current High Interest CCLA Book Unit Assets £ £ £ £ Bank accounts total 38194 172 50717 1423 Stock 500 Sequestration (incl. money due from diocese) 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 38194 172 50717 1923 Liabilities Uncashed cheques 3312 Cash held as agent 0 Gift Aid due to Sponsorship A/C 46 Loans 0 Sequestration (incl. fees due to diocese) 0 TOTAL 3358 Net Assets 34836 172 50717 1923 RESTRICTED FUNDS M & M Sponsorship Assets Bank Account 360 657 Debtors 0 46 TOTAL 360 703 Liabilities Debtors 0 0 TOTAL 0 0 Net Assets 360 703 TOTAL FUNDS Net Assets 35196 172 50717 1923 703 |
2021 Totals £ 90506 500 0 91006 3312 0 46 0 0 3358 87648 Totals 1017 46 1063 0 0 1063 88711 |
2020 Totals £ 87788 500 0 88288 0 0 0 3750 199 3949 84339 £ 579 0 579 0 0 0 579 84918 |
|---|---|---|
NOTE
Trafford Heart and Stroke Club have kindly cancelled the balance of the outstanding loan
Review of the year 2021
A service was held in church on the 3[rd] of January but then with Covid rates rising the Government re-imposed lockdown, so our church building was closed again. We were back to holding our services online. PCC meetings were held on zoom.
On 31st Rev. Mo Surrey laid down her licence at St John’s and has taken up a new licence called ‘Permission to Officiate’. She is longer based at St John’s but will be available able to preach and lead worship across Anglican churches in Manchester. We said goodbye and a heartfelt thanks to the Rev Mo Surrey for all that she has done for St John’s.
We held a 6 week Lent course on zoom called “the power of the cross”
We were able to open the church on the 14[th] March to celebrate Mothering Sunday. We still had to adhere to social distancing, track and trace, wearing of masks, seated services, communion of one kind but it was wonderful to be able to worship God together again. Our ministry team have worked extremely hard and have continued to provide an on-line weekly service for those unable to attend church.
The 23[rd] March was a National day of reflection and prayer. St John’s was open for a time of quiet reflection followed by a short service of readings, music and prayers, and a chance to remember those we had lost to Covid. We remembered fondly our dear sister Ann Robinson who died of Covid in February. A special collection was set up in her memory, a bench has been purchased with this money sited in the Garden of Rest. Our Mother’s Prayers group of which Ann was a member, planted a rose in the Garden of Rest in memory of Ann. Mothers Prayers is a Nationwide charity formed to help those mothers who wish to pray together for their children and grandchildren and to find the support they need.
A day by day Holy week was held online with a reading, reflection, and song for each day of Holy week. It contained recorded readings by our own church members and video reflections by Rev Debra and Rev Rodney Green. A quiet service was held on Maundy Thursday. We were still unable to do a walk of witness on Good Friday due to covid. A Good Friday event was put on the website. Easter was celebrated in church. Messy Easter church had to be put on the website due to covid. Members of our congregation together with Flixton fellowship. knitted, crocheted flowers which decorated a cross outside Flixton house as a visual celebration of Easter in Flixton
Thursday 13[th] May we held a special evening service to celebrate Ascension Day. Mission Communities were formed with St. John’s forming a community with St. Michael’s, St. Mary’s, Christ church, St. Clements, All Saints and St Matthew’s. The Rev Nick Watson has been appointed as the new Area Dean of South Manchester and Stretford, and we are delighted that he and his wife, Joanna, have made St John’s Vicarage their new home. Rev. Nick was licensed to his new role at Manchester Cathedral on the 6[th] June. On 27th June we were delighted to meet Nick and his wife Joanna at our Sunday morning service and to hear a bit about their own road to faith, their family, and their hopes for the future. Reverend Nick (who is now licensed to St John’s as an ‘assistant curate), is in overall charge of us and 40 other churches! Sunday school started again on the 2[nd] May with covid restrictions in place. Sunday school has been renamed JC Squad (Junior Church Squad) at the request of the children. We held our APCM on the 16[th] May in church with social distancing in place. An evening of Faith, Fellowship and Future was planned for the 24[th] June but had to be postponed until 5[th] August due to Covid restrictions’. Rev. Debra collated the suggestions put
forwards at this meeting. These have been implemented where possible, covid restrictions allowing.
On Thursday 16[th] September our evening house groups resumed with the addition of a Thursday afternoon house group led by Rev. Debra. The Monday evening prayer meeting started again on the 6[th] September
We held a workday on the 29[th] May and one on Saturday 11th September when we filled a skip with the accumulated hedge and shrub pruning’s from the bottom of the back field. A men’s meeting was held on Monday 27th September with a meal at the Bird in Hand pub where the men were also able to meet the Rev James Spence of Christ Church Davyhulme. We held an All-Age service on Sunday 3rd October which was our Harvest Thanksgiving. Harvest gifts were passed on to the Booth Centre in Manchester. We re-started our good news slot in the Sunday morning service on 10[th] Oct. Angela Easdon has completed a module in Pastoral Care and Listening.
A team of people volunteered to visit De Brook Lodge old people’s home for a Prayer Fellowship service there once a month. This has been enjoyed by residents and volunteers alike.
We decided to join with St Michael’s Flixton to hold a service of Holy Communion on Thursday mornings, alternating our venue between St Michael’s and St John’s. The first joint service was on Thursday 7[th] October at St John’s.
On 21[st] November, we had a great celebratory day –the festival of Christ the King – which also marked the 1 year anniversary of Rev. Debra being licensed to serve at St John’s Our worship group was able to meet and practice again and sing together at our Carol service on 19[th] Dec. Money collected at this service was donated to Francis House. Wellacre Academy cancelled their carol service in church due to Covid, but Rev. Debra was invited into school. Acre Hall school came into church with one class only for a Christingle service. We again collected shoe boxes full of gifts for children for Samaritan’s Purse.
A special Messy Church page for Christmas was put on St John’s website, with ideas for crafts, things to download and print, videos to watch and songs to enjoy. ‘Messy Church in a bag’ were delivered by Rev. Rodney and Elizabeth to children known to us to use at home. We were able to hold a Crib service on Christmas Eve and celebrate together in church on Christmas day with a 10.30am service.
Our ministers have taken 4 funerals in St John’s church during 2021.
St John’s PCC have dealt with a variety of matters this year, including:
-
We have built a GDPR-compliant list of email addresses for use in sharing information about St John’s, with access limited to the clergy, churchwardens, and parish secretary .
-
We agreed to renew our ‘Special Collection’ this year to help those affected by the Covid pandemic, and Christian work relieving their need, in parts of the world most badly affected by Covid.
-
Matt Thorne and Graham Dey informed the PCC that they would like to start a Football club at St. John’s with the support of Ambassadors for Football for the 1[st] year. There would be a Christian message at each training session. The PCC agreed to support this exciting new venture
-
The PCC decided to set up a restricted fund within our financial structure called the St John’s Fund for Mission and Ministry.