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Annual Report of the Parochial Church Council for the Year Ending 31 December 2019 Approved draft:1st October 2010 [subject to amendment - additional information due for inclusion] Parish of Stockport and Brinnington St Mary Stockport – St Thomas Stockport – St Luke Brinnington STOCKPORT PARISH CHURCH Annual Report of the Parochial Church Council for the year ending 31 December 2019 Report prepared by Susan M Heap FCG MBCS on behalf of the Parish of Stockport and Brinnington October 2020 Diocese of Chester CONTENTS 01 Introduction Page Aims and Activities 3 Objectives and Activities 4 4 Achievements and Performance 4 02 Ministry Team Reports: Report of the Rector 5 Associate Minister’s Report 10 Curate’s Report 11 03 Administrative Information 12 04 Parochial Church Council (PCC) 13 05 Report of PCC Secretary 13 06 Structure, Governance and Management 14 Church Representation Rules 2020 Items identified as of special interest Responsibilities of the PCC with regard to the Annual Meeting 07 Financial Review: Report of PCC Treasurer 17 08 Report of Deanery Synod Representatives 18 09 Electoral Roll 18 10 Report(s) regarding the fabric of church premises and other buildings Stockport Parish Church (St Mary’s in the Marketplace) 19 St Andrew’s (Hall Street) 23 St Thomas’ Church, Stockport 24 St Luke’s, Brinnington 28 11 Safeguarding 29 12 Nave Café (St Mary’s in the Marketplace) 30 Statement(s) of Financial Activities 2019 31 St Marys/St Andrews 31 St Thomas 37 St Lukes 40 Examiners Report – Haskell Woolfe Accountants report pending 41 Copy of Annual Meeting Minutes – April 2019 42 This report (subject to update) was agreed at the Parochial Church Council meeting (held via Zoom) on the 1st October 2020 Signed Rev Lynne Cullens 2 1. Introduction 1.1.1 Thank you for downloading or otherwise acquiring a copy of this, the first Annual Report of the newly formed Parish of Stockport and Brinnington. 1.1.2 Who would have guessed in April 2019 when we held our first Parish Meeting at St Mary’s, with Archbishop Ian, that a year later we would have been forced to close our doors, observe lockdown legislation/guidelines, cancel our plans for an Annual Meeting in April 2020 and ware a mask, wondering day to day how life with Covid-19 still very much around will work out for all of us. 1.1.3 We had hoped that when re-scheduling the Annual Meeting later in the year (within the timeframe set by the Diocese) it would enable us to hold a meeting in person and in Church. However with restriction measurers still in place due to the pandemic the Bishop of Chester issued an instrument allowing Annual Meetings to be held via Zoom up to the end of October. 1.1.4 It is somewhat a challenge to all of us, although more and more time has for many has been spent at the end of a keyboard lately. We appreciate that not everyone has access to Zoom but hope that as many of our parishioners and members of our congrega- tions as possible - able and eligible to attend/vote - will be able to do so using a laptop, tablet, smart phone or by dialing in. 1.1.5 For the most part proceedings via Zoom will be as normal, the requirement be- ing to initially appoint SIX churchwardens (nominations for which must be received in the prescribed format in advance of the meeting). At the Annual Meeting we also need to elect FOUR members to the Parochial Church Council (for a period of three years – replacing those who were only elected for one year in April 2019). Also required are THREE representatives for the Deanery Synod – to take up that position again for a period of three years but starting in December 2020. Our present representatives stay in post until later in the year. 1.1.6 This report represents the financial year 2019, although that seems quite a long time ago now. However, a lot has happened since our new parish came to life, and since Lynne joined us last summer. Although in-depth reports as to aspects from January 2020 have to be largely ignored at this time and which will be incorporated into our Annual Report in 2021 - when it is anticipated we can return to a normal time-table of holding our Annual Meeting around April (or at least before the end of May) – we have updated on the work of the parish to date (Summer 2020) for your information. 1,1.7 If you have any queries or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us and we’ll do our best to help. Instructions as to how to join our Zoom meeting will be made available on church notices, our web-sites, our individual “A Church Near You” websites as well as via Facebook. S M Heap - PCC Secretary /Parish Administrator September 2020 3 1.2. ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2019 The Parochial Church Council of the Parish Stockport and Brinnington (PCC) submits its report and financial statements for the year ending 31 December 2019. 1.2.1 Aims & Purposes The PCC has the responsibility of co-operating with the Rector in promoting, in the ecclesiastical parish of Stockport and Brinnington, the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It has maintenance responsibilities for the churches of Stockport St Mary, Stockport St Thomas, Brinnington St Luke and the premises known as Stockport St Andrew Community Church (technically a closed church but used for other purposes). Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 The new Parish of Stockport and Brinnington incorporated the Benefices of: Stockport (Stockport St. Mary); Stockport, St. Thomas; and St. Luke, Brinnington with St. Paul, Portwood . The Pastoral Scheme affecting the above benefices was made by the Commissioners on 13 December 2018 to come into effect on 1 January 2019. 1.2.2 Objectives & Activities The PCC is committed to the success of this newly formed parish, enabling as many people as possible to worship at our churches and to become part of our parish community. To look at different partnership working initiatives, community development and opportunities of working with families, young people and children. The Parish was fortunate in appointing the Rev Lynne Cullens as Rector in February 2019, her Induction and Installation taking place in July. Previous to Lynne’s arrival the churches making up the new parish had been in an interregnum situation for quite some time, but keeping fully operational with services and events, supported by various local clergy and lay representatives as well as the Bishop of Chester, Bishop of Stockport and Archdeacon of Macclesfield. The Parish Ministry Team to benefit during 2020 with the appointment of both a part-time Associate Minister and Curate. 1.2.3 Achievements and Performance As with any new venture it takes time to settle into a new structure, merge procedures and accounts and to plan for the future – however much has been achieved. For further details see Rector’s Report. 4 2. Ministry Team Reports 2.1 Report of the Rector to the 2020 APCM of the Parish of Stockport and Brinnington When I arrived in the Parish in July 2019, the APCM, the first as the new Parish of Stockport and Brinnington, had been held. No-one could have possibly envisaged what the world would be like by the time we held this, our 2020, Annual Meeting. COVID19, which featured on the news as a virus in a distant country towards the end of last year, is now a painful, day-to-day domestic reality and one which continues to affect our families, neighbourhoods, infrastructure, economy and, inevitably, the Church. As our Curate reminded me recently, we need to give space and permission, as a community of faith, for the articulation of the natural sense of loss and grief that brings for the world as we knew it. And particularly for those who have been bereaved and directly affected themselves; we need to allow proper time to lament the changes and challenges to all our lives that COVID has brought. But I am also mindful of Christ’s words to Peter in scripture, in Matthew chapter 16. ‘You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it’. What wonderful words of comfort, and an exhortation to remember that the Church is God’s and nothing in the natural or super-natural can overcome it. So, as we take this time to reflect, we lament as a Parish. We mourn lives lost, we grieve the effects of the pandemic on homes, livelihoods and aspirations. But we recognise that, even in the midst of all that feels so dark and so lost, and in the anxiety of what the future might hold, there is that hope. That the Church cannot be overcome, that the Church will triumph. Not because of us, but because of God. Because of his promise to us that we are part of something here on earth that is eternal, divine and unassailable. And we are called to trust to that, to put our hands to the plough and not to look back from our task, as Jesus says in Luke chapter 9. In the midst of change, our Christian vocation remains unaltered. We are called to the mission of the Church, the mission of Christ; to proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom, to teach, baptise and nurture new believers, to respond to human need by loving service, to transform unjust structures of society and pursue peace and reconciliation and to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation.
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