Church secretaries Consultations

Supporting local churches includes supporting the individual volunteers who help to make things run well.

Church Secretaries are vital to the life of the churches. We hope that by providing a place to meet we will learn from and support one another

Next meetings:

April 4, 2009 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Locations yet to be decided

The Church Secretaries pack outline of a pack describing and giving advice on the work of church secretaries

Being Ezra organising the return from exile

Being Nehemiah rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem

Being St Paul writing to the Corinthians

Being Canute trying to hold back the waves

Being a general (or quartermaster) organising a military campaign

Trying to be the Prime Minister without the civil service

Build a wall without enough bricks

Filling a bath with the plug out

Being England football manager

Being a mother (or father)

Building a house of cards

Being an unpaid civil servant

Driving a coach on the school outing

Organising Christmas every Sunday

Being Sisyphus rolling a stone uphill

Being Prometheus having the ravens eat your liver

Bake a cake without using eggs

Being a headteacher without the budget

Trying to go for a walk in a thunderstorm

Shopping in Tesco's on a Saturday morning

Being the captain of a sinking ship

Being a king without a kingdom

Walking on a tightrope without a safety net

Driving a car during a fuel crisis

Being a politician trying to win an election

Sailing a yacht against the wind

Being a gardener in a garden full of slugs

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