HOLY TRINITY, CHATHAM
WELCOME – HARVEY GERMAN
PRAYER/REFLECTION – THE REV. KRISTEN
OLIVER
INTRODUCTION FOR SUZANNE EDMONDSON,
RENEW CAMPAIGN CO-ORDINATOR
MINUTES OF 18TH SEPTEMBER –
ST. PAUL’S, CHATHAM
Moved: Brian Pierce; Seconded: Sheldon
Parsons Carried
BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES
TREASURER’S REPORT
Moved: Sheldon Parsons; Seconded: Jane
Cartier Carried
Income $817.78 Expenses $493.25 Balance
$3,124.29
DIOCESAN COUNCIL UPDATE – HARVEY GERMAN
– CLAY (Committee for Lutheran and Anglican Youth) MEETING IN SASKATCHEWAN
BREAK FOR POT LUCK DINNER
DIOCESAN BUDGET PRESENTATION: PAUL
RATHBONE (DIOCESAN TREASURER)
(Diocese of Huron has $50 million invested and $30 million in the name
of parishes)
LETTER TO WARDENS: re: segregation of
duties pertaining to finances
ARCHDEACON’S REPORT – THE VEN. PAUL
MILLWARD
SAFE CHURCH – HANDOUTS TO PARISHES RE:
STATUS AND ANNUAL REPORTING
DEANERY ROUNDUP: Trinity, Blenheim
(Bazaar, BAC, Pie Ladies for Christmas, Euchres & sound system update)
& Christ Church, Dresden (Bake Sale 7 December, shoes boxes)
Suggestion from the Rev. David Fuller
that Grace Church, Rondeau be included as a line item in parish budgets for
January vestries
Adjourn: The Rev. David Fuller
ANNOUNCEMENT: St. James, Wallaceburg – Auction, Pies and
Purse - 19 January in St. James Hall –
Proceeds to Mom’s Baby Cupboard
NEXT MEETING: Christ Church, Chatham
February 19, 2013
Refreshment Team #5 St. James, Port Lambton
Church
of the Redeemer, Highgate
St. Peter’s, Moraviantown
SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION TOPIC: FEBRUARY
MEETING
“Discussion about Lay Readers and how they
function”
RENEW CAMPAIGN
Some of you may be aware of the Diocesan
Renew campaign which was discussed at Synod in May and is planned to get
underway this Fall.
As the Diocesan brochure states:
“Renew is about parish vitality – it is
about working together to ensure that our parishes are able to carry out their
mission and vision, with support from the Diocese and national church. It offers parishes and donors a unique
opportunity to direct, or designate, financial support to needs within
parishes, such as capital requirements cited as priorities within the Diocese,
or to the important mission work of the parish.”
The Diocesan priorities are as follows:
(1)
Huron Church Camp - $2,000, 000
to $2,500, 000 in capital upgrades.
(2)
Our Sacramental Leadership –
urgent needs for the personal care of clergy and their families
(3)
Our Enduring Legacy –
strengthen mission, programmes and facilities of the Diocese
(4)
Our Commitment to Youth
(5)
Our Shared Ministries – PWRDF,
Canadian Armed Forces, assistance to northern and foreign clergy and pastoral
care for indigenous and aboriginal peoples, etc.
Funds will be designated by checking a
box on the pledge form which includes the parish option. All funds will go to the ministry they have
been designated. The Diocese will not be
taking a percentage of the fund raised for parish ministry. All money that is designated to a church will
go there. This is a requirement of the
Canada Revenue Agency for directed funds.
