St Andrew’s Psalter Lane Church
Extraordinary Church Meeting 3 rd August 2025
Chair – Anna Calvert – ECC Chair
Minutes – Jan Owen
Introduction and welcome – AC
One item of business and one item for discussion
Item of business –
The church was asked to approve the proposal for Alastair Morris to step down as
Church Steward and to take up the appointment of Property Steward to replace John
Cripps, and the appointment of John Cripps to Church Warden. Both approved
unanimously.
AC expressed her thanks to both John and Alastair for the way in which they have
diligently and excellently carried out their now former roles.
Item for discussion –
Following the service last week which called for congregations to be more radical in
their community outreach, Erica Dunnow approached AC to express that several
people had commented that this would be a really good thing for us as a church to
do. Erica, who is involved in the promotion of radical hospitality, offered her help in
working with the congregation to explore this further if this is something we wished to
pursue and AC had suggested that this could usefully be discussed at this meeting.
AC therefore asked the congregation for comments. Overall, after useful discussion,
the feeling was that this is something the congregation would like to explore for
themselves without an external facilitator. Cheryl Collins proposed undertaking a
survey / scoping exercise to determine what our local community needs from the
church, and then to explore how we can respond to these needs. This suggestion
was enthusiastically supported.
Members of the congregation who have ideas about how we can interact more with
our local community, or who wish to volunteer to take part in this are asked to
discuss this with Cheryl in the first instance.
The meeting was drawn to a close.