By Sarah Wyman, Diocesan President.
As this is the beginning of the triennial many people have changed places
and I am just finding my way. Jacky my predecessor has given me a good
base to start from and I am pleased to say a group of trustees and friends
whose support is amazing. We have a new patron, the Duchess of
Edinburgh.
The South West Cluster is proceeding onwards, the constitution has been
sent to the charity commisioners, the applications for the specialist trustees,
treasurer, safeguarding and database have been distributed.
Behind the scenes we are trying to get various legal documents underway,
descriptions of what our trustee board will be like once it becomes a
committee. The rules and regulations and various other documents. Our
first stage today later Aurea will be talking about the changes we need to do
to our constitution.
Another major change has been our direct debit scheme to help our
collecting of subscriptions and cutting down on the bank charges that exist
for cheques and other things.
It has taken a while and hopefully with Jacky’s help will be ready for next
year.
We are planning to have a commissioning service for myself on the 3 rd of
July, we are awaiting our new Chaplains to finalise the date and then
invitations will be sent to you all. We will be back in the Cathedral, from
what I gather the first Thursday Eucharists that we as MU support are
increasing in number and Rachel and Paul are incorporating various
prayers from MU into these services. Anyone can attend them so we are
witnessing to others.
Next year is our 150 year celebration for the MU. We plan to have a service
in the Cathedral and are awaiting on our chaplains Rachel and Paul to
enable this to happen.
When we had our 140 I remember the many banners that were paraded
through the street. This time it would be interesting and maybe fun to see
how many banners we can bring to the cathedral. I am not proposing that
we carry them but put them around the cathedral. We havent quite worked
out how to do it, but I know the difficulties of carrying banners on the bus.
There are many banners in the diocese from closed branches and I am
hoping that we will be able to bring just the banner not the wooden staff to
the cathedral. So please can you look around the churches near you and let
me know if there is a banner and where it is so I can co-ordinate the
number and where they are. It should be a good time. Something we can
look forward too.
I am also hoping that we can all get together as a cluster and go around the
eight dioceses that form the SW Cluster as it would be nice to meet other
MU people through out our group.
MSH is looking into dementia awareness and hoping to link up with a
charity who can help us be aware of how we can not only help us members
who are suffering from this horrible illness but those in our communities. For
instance, pictures are very helpful as they bring back memories and maybe
we need to look at sending cards to those we know who are struggling.
I am hoping that we can bring some better communication in our diocese
spreading the word of what we are involved in.
Thank you for all your support and all the prayers you send to God for us to
help those who are struggling. I am very proud in what we do and thank
you. God Bless you All.
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