“What will you be doing?”
*At the invitation of a publisher, I’ll be writing a short book called “Two into One” about how we brought Church on the Common and Church at the School together in 2010.
*I’ll be joining something called the Order of the Mustard Seed- it’s not sinister, it’s just a group of people who vow to live by a “rule of life”. As part of this process I’ll be travelling to Herrnhut in SE Germany.
*I’ll be visiting our sister church in Poland, and writing and delivering a series of lectures about “being a church in your culture” in Paris.
“So who’ll be in charge when you go?”
*Responsibility for the “spiritualities” (worship, evangelism, prayer, preaching, the sacraments) will be delegated to Stephanie Gillingham, our very able Curate.
*Whether I’m here or not, the care of the physical church building and the maintenance of order within it remain the responsibility of the churchwardens, Anne Gardner and Derek Martin.
*Most other things in the life of the church are the responsibility of the PCC, the elected church council. I don’t chair this anyway – Phil Preston does – and the PCC will continue without missing a beat when I’m away.
I look forward to telling everyone all about it in July!