Deanery Minutes June 2011
RUGBY DEANERY SYNOD
Minutes of the 1st meeting of the seventeenth session of the Rugby Deanery Synod held at Christ Church, Brownsover on Monday 6 June 2011.
17.1.1 Martin welcomed everyone with a special welcome to newcomers to the Deanery Synod and thanked Brownsover for hosting the event. He spent some time explaining the workings of the Deanery for the benefit of newcomers to the Deanery Synod. He also mentioned that elections for lay chair and pastoral committee would take place at the September 2011 meeting.
17.1.2 Worship – Worship was followed by Holy Communion led by Diane
Bussey. A time of sharing and getting to know one another also took place.
17.1.3 The meeting broke for refreshments and further “getting to know one another”
17.1.4 The meeting re-convened with Kevin again thanking Brownsover for hosting the
event and also the ladies for producing the refreshments.
17.1.4 Minutes and Matters Arising
17.1.4.1 The minutes of the last meeting were agreed.
17.1.4.2 There were no matters arising.
17.1.5 Area Dean’s Notices
17.1.5.1 Martin said that a number of churches in the Deanery had recently had lead stolen from their roofs, the last two being Wolston and Brownsover, the latter in the last few hours. Wolston had recently fitted roof alarms to prevent further theft and Helen Simmons had details if anyone was interested. (PMC Roger will circulate details to all churches).
17.1.5.2 Martin mentioned that the Bishop is visiting the Deanery on Wednesday 5 October, meeting the clergy, seeing a non church activity and then there would be a Deanery evening to which all are invited at Brownsover at 7.30pm.
17.1.6 Deanery Priorities – building on our Deanery Day
17.1.6.1 Mission Team
Mark Beach advised that the Bishop was coming to Rugby for a week from 3 March 2012. A number of ideas had been put forward and he asked everyone to think of ideas from their own Benifices; it was down to the deanery to ensure the visit took place and to each parish to think of things the Bishop could come to in their areas. The Synod unanimously agreed to support the mission. Mark announced he was holding a meeting on 8 June at The Rectory in Church Street to which all were invited.
Martin re-iterated that the reps should take this back to their own Churches to organise things so that the Mission did happen. ACTION ALL
17.1.7 Reports
17.1.7.1 Bishop’s Council.
The report had been previously issued and there were no questions.
17.1.8 Any Other Business
17.1.8.1 There was no other business.
17.1.9 Next meeting
The next Deanery Synod meeting will be held on 22 September 2011 at St Johns, Long Lawford at 7.30pm
(Kevin advised that this was an important meeting which would discuss and vote on Women Bishops – it was mentioned that the Diocese was holding an open meeting giving information on this topic at Bluecoats School on 15 September at 7.00pm).
The following meeting is on 23 November 2011 at St George’s at 7.30pm
17.1.10 The meeting closed in prayer
Roger Evans
7 June 2011
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