Tuesday 11th June 2019
7.30 pm at St. Kenelm’s Church, Enstone
APCM Election Results 2019
Thank you to all those who attended our APCMs this week. The following were elected to serve our churches:
Churchwardens:
Chadlington – Susan Myatt & Michael Wigley
Spelsbury – Ken Wakefield
Chadlington – Susan Myatt & Michael Wigley
Spelsbury – Ken Wakefield
PCC Members:
Chadlington: Jean Heath and Cheryl Horsey [one vacancy carried forward]
Ascott: Judith Mitchell [one vacancy carried forward]
Spelsbury: Christopher Galloway, George Bailey, Nick Peto
Enstone: Dawn Briggs [one vacancy carried forward]
Deanery Synod Representatives:
Ascott: Sarah Tribe
Spelsbury: Andrew Griffiths
Enstone: Rosemary Nixon
We are grateful to them and all existing members who serve in leadership positions within the Benefice.
Easter Trail at Ditchley
Saturday 20th April 2019
Holy Week and Easter 2019
An Evening of Poetry
Sunday 14th April 2019
7 pm at Wychwood Library
WAYS OF ATTENDING: pilgrimage & meditation
Meditation, some would say, is the way to wisdom. Or, as Fr Richard Rohr recently put it in a Lenten Daily Meditation, in wanting ‘to grow towards love, union, salvation, or enlightenment (I use the words almost interchangeably)’ we hope to move ‘from naïveté to wisdom’ (https://cac.org/from-naivete-to-wisdom-2019-03-24/). John Main, one of the pioneers of a renewed focus on Christian meditation in the twentieth century, compared the ‘path of meditation’ to a pilgrimage, something not unknown to us in our deanery: Continue reading WAYS OF ATTENDING: pilgrimage & meditation
Annual Parochial Church Meetings 2019
Every parish is legally required to hold an Annual Parish Meeting to elect Churchwardens and an Annual Parochial Church Meeting to conduct other parish business, including to elect members to the Parish Church Council; for those members of the PCC to represent the parish on the Deanery Synod; to review the finances and the workings of the parish over the previous calendar year. The meeting can also raise issues for the PCC to consider during the coming year. Continue reading Annual Parochial Church Meetings 2019
