AGENDA

ST MARY MAGDALENE AND ST ANDREW RIDLINGTON

MEETING OF PARISHIONERS

Welcome and opening prayer
Election of churchwarden(s)

ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING

Report on Electoral Roll
Minutes of APCM held on 17/05/2021 and matters arising
Report from Rector
Report on proceedings of PCC and Safeguarding
Report on church fabric and ornaments
Report on proceedings of Deanery Synod
Report on PCC accounts
Election of Deanery Synod representative(s)
Elect lay member of the PCC

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL MEETING

Minutes of the last meeting – 05/03/2022

Matters arising

• bank mandate
• Gazprom

Correspondence
Ministry and Mission – Lent courses/Easter/Baptism 15/05/Bishop Donald’s
Visit to the Benefice 08/06/ Pet Service/ Harvest
Festivals/ Bishop John’s visit to the Benefice 07-09/10
Safeguarding
Finance

• bank balance
• parish share payment

Environmental Mission

• Ecochurch

Church building

• electrical inspection 28/03
• lightning conductor
• belfry check 23/03
• PAT testing
• fire extinguisher check
• proposed works: WC and kitchenette

Churchyard
Social
Fundraising

• concert
• open gardens
• RT’s talk
• play

AOB

This is to inform you that on Sunday, April 3rd 2022 at 10:45 a meeting will be held in Ridlington’s St. Mary Magdalene & St. Andrew for the election of a Parochial representative of the laity. The original notice can be found in the Porch of the Church.

 

I was delighted when Christy Lefteri’s “The Beekeeper of Aleppo” was donated – it did not disappoint.  A moving and haunting story of a perilous journey undertaken by a couple escaping Syria and living as refugees. By focusing on the couple and seeing their suffering at first hand we begin to appreciate the  desolation and displacement of war at first hand. I heartedly recommend this book.

On a lighter note, three humorous books – one of Spike Milligan’s war memoirs “Adolf Hitler – My Part in His Downfall” – from declaration of war on Germany to landing in Algeria as part of the Allied’s liberation of Africa.  As Milligan says “All the salient facts are true”.  It was good to re-read this, I found it amusing.

“Lost in Translation – Misadventures in English Abroad” collected by Charlie Crocker and his team.  Covers everything from hotel signs to advertisements, some really hit my funny bone.

and

“Peter Simple’s Domain” by Michael Wharton – a collection of columns from The Daily Telegraph covering the period 1999 to 2002: I dare say more funny to have read at the time they were written.

Please feel free to borrow the books from the church or, if you would like to buy, please make a donation.

Debra Thatcher.