Message from your vicar
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The Vicarage 25 Dence Park HERNE BAY Kent CT6 6BQ Tel: 01227 360948 / 07495861609 Email: revsuemartin@btinternet.com
5th July 2022
One Parish The Parish of St.Mary’s Reculver, St. Bartholomew’s Herne Bay And Holy Cross Hoath
Dear Friends I write to give you all an update on the One Parish. As of the 1st June we became known as the Parish above in church terms. We are now at the stage where the old P.C.C.’s of each of the old parishes have been closed off and the funds transferred into a new account for the new parish. Please be assured that any restricted funds attached to any of the churches will remain put aside for that church. We have now appointed a new P.C.C. for the new parish. At a Joint PCC on Monday 13th June each Church old P.C.C. passed a resolution to transfer monies from the old accounts to new P.C.C. accounts. Each church has now had an extra APCM to see the accounts up to 31st May 2022. The dates for these meetings were as follows:
Monday 25th July 7.30pm St. Bartholomew’s APCM in Church Tuesday 26th July 7.30pm Holy Cross APCM in Church Wednesday 27th July 7.30pm St. Mary’s APCM in Church
The Special APCM and Vestry Meeting was held on Sunday 31st July at 11.30am at Holy Cross after the Joint Service at Holy Cross at 10am that day. At this meeting we appointed 3 Church Wardens; one for each church. We then appointed 9 P.C.C. reps, three from each Church. The new P.C.C. looks like this:
Rev Sue Martin Rev Stephen Parrett Rev Jenny Hadlow Church Warden – St. Mary’s - Catherine Hampton Church Warden – St. Bartholomew’s - Ken Skinner Church Warden – Holy Cross - Clare Hopper 3 reps from St. Mary’s (Names to be published) 3 reps from St. Bart’s (Name to be published) 3 reps from Holy Cross (Names to be published) Carole Skinner – Deanery Synod Lawrence Tuck – Deanery Synod Catherine Hampton – Deanery Synod Janet Scroggins - Deanery Synod Auditor (TBA) Electoral- Roll Officer (TBA)
Then followed the first meeting of new P.C.C. where we appointed the Treasurer (Iain Farquhar) and Secretary (TBA). Both of these were co-opted onto the PCC. 5 sub- Committees have been formed:
A P.C.C. member will be on each of these sub committees and will feed back to the main P.C.C. The idea will be that there will be two people from each church on Mission, Fundraising, Worship and Church Hall. Safeguarding will have three members which Rev Stephen will oversee.
The Worship Team is already up and running: Rev Sue Martin Rev Stephen Parrett John Sinclair Angela Holness Ken Skinner Mike Pannell Clare Hopper Sue Hogwood
Safeguarding Team is as follows: Rev Stephen Parrett June Conabeer Heather Newman
We have three Fabric Committees: Which comprise Church Warden; Unofficial Deputy Church Warden and two others from that particular Church; again this committee will concentrate on Fabric of Church and report to new P.C.C.
This may seem very confusing but all will become a lot clearer once everything is up and running. These are very exciting times, please continue to pray for those working behind the scenes to make this change go as smoothly as possible and that the Lord will gather us as one to show the way forward.
Yours faithfully Rev Sue Martin Priest in Charge
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