APCM Election Results 2019

Church elections

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

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.

WAYS OF ATTENDING: pilgrimage & meditation

 

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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

Serving the villages of Chadlington, Ascott-under-Wychwood, Spelsbury and Enstone