Urban Churches Support Group
Supporting and Encouraging Urban Churches
Contact Details:
Downstairs flat, St Mary’s Rectory
Stoke Newington Church Street
Hackney
London
N16 9ES
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
Is your Church a Volunteer Magnet? Part 2
- the multicultural dimension
Saturday, October 30th 10.30-1.30 pm
Location yet to be decided
Is your Church a volunteer magnet? paper based on this consultation. A more detailed list of suggestions is also available here
Local church leaders and church secretaries discussion paper of some of the issues
Change questionnaire a questionnaire to help you think about your attitude to change
Support a reflection based on the story of Jethro and Moses to help you think through how you give and receive support of the
The Church Secretaries pack outline of a pack describing and giving advice on the work of church secretaries
I'm a church secretary like...
Being Moses leading the children of Israel
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
Or...