May Update

Vestry meets on the third Tuesday of every month.
This month on our agenda was an update about finances, discussing how we continue to improve Shop 89 and talking about the Discipleship House.

Our finance report showed that we have spent more money than was budgetted for so far this year. The main reason for that was that our Annual Insurance bill has come in from the Diocese, so this expense is budgetted for across the year and therefore will even out as the year progresses. The other standout was that giving was down by $5,000.

Shop 89 has been reviewed by Vestry, in order that we can think about the future. There were a whole lot of recommendations from the report and we were discussing further how we can implement some of them. Rev. Andy will be further working with the Shop 89 staff and volunteers to action some of them. Watch this space! The fixed term contract is coming to an end at the end of May, Vestry are looking to appoint a permanent position.

The Discipleship House continues to be empty as we have not managed to secure some tenants for this ministry as of yet. We are continuing to source some tenants but in the meantime are going to explore short term options like Air B'n'B. 

Vestry also met on Sunday 25th May in the afternoon to discuss the future of the church and where we focus our energy, time and money. This was a productive afternoon and we are refining our thoughts and will likely present them to the church soon.

Feel free to discuss any of this with your Vestry members:
Co-Vicars, Matthew Hague, Vickie Humphries, Janet Williams, David Hamilton, David Smith, Trudy Shannon, Alan Wilson or Ben Pringle.