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AGM on April 24th 2010 in
Sheffield
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St. Mark's Church,
Report:-
This year's
AGM took place by kind invitation of St Mark's Church, Broomfield Road,
Sheffield. We met upstairs in a comfortable hall at 10.45 for coffee and
registration, followed by a short introduction and our business meeting.
We were pleased that all vacant committee posts have been filled and we
are so grateful for everyone that has agreed to take on different roles of
responsibility and also to those who have worked so hard for Broken
Rites over the last three or four years. We presented our retiring Chair
with flowers and a token.
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Photos taken during our AGM
Top row: Chair holding her bouquet; members looking at the book stall.
Bottom row: In the hall and enjoying lunch.
Some ladies from the local Methodist church provided an excellent
lunch downstairs and arranged the chairs attractively in groups.
After lunch, our speaker, The Rev'd Kathy Galloway,
talked about her life and stimulated a great deal of discussion and
interest in her views. She is a well-known writer was Leader of the Iona
Community before becoming Head of Christian Aid in Scotland..
Unfortunately, Bishop Roy Screech was unable to be
with us, so the vicar of St Mark's gave the Blessing before we went home..
To read Kathy's talk, click
here.
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VSO volunteer in Guyana
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Working as a
Speech and Language Therapist
with
project ABLE Gutana
Broken Rites
member, Frieda, is very positive about her placement, which started in
November, as one of only two therapists who cover the whole country. she
will frequently travel into the regions by bicycle, boat or aeroplane and
she will be working mainly with adults.
Frieda wants to
thank all those you supported her and VSO. Donations can still be made
direct to VSO (Volunteer no 805997) with a Gift Aid declaration for tax
payers or via her secure webpage:
http://original.justgiving.com/friedaattwood
Read her latest newsletter
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AGM April 22nd 2009
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Top row: members at the AGM; lunchtime;
Middle row: Lunchtime; Bishop Roy Screech; drama
workshop
Bottom row; Chat Room workshop; Music workshop in the
chapel.
The 26th AGM at Church House, Westminster
After the business part of the day was over, we had over an hour to enjoy
socialising over a lunch of sandwiches, fruit and cake. Then, in the
afternoon, we
divided into four workshops for 1 1/4 hours:-
 | Music and choral singing in the chapel, led by one of our members. |
| Drama - My Life, my space. Anna Brown used creative movement and
drama to encourage confidence and reflect on our values and seek peace.
Above you see examples of this movement using ribbons and a long
elastic chord. |
| Voice production about using your voice effectively without
straining. |
| Chat Room - a chance for members to join in an unstructured chat
with fellow members. |
Finally, we came together and Bishop Roy Screech closed our meeting
with a blessing. We were very pleased that he had been able to join us
during the day and we also welcomed some Bishops' Visitors.
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2008 AGM
As part of our 25th anniversary celebrations, the Archbishop addressed us at
Church House.
Summary of his
address
The Archbishop
was enthroned as
Archbishop of Wales in 2000 before becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. He has
written many theology books and his interests include music, fiction and
languages. He is married with a son and daughter.
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Our Display at General Synod in February
Thank you very much to everyone who supported this
event. Before the AGM there
was our display at The General Synod of the Church of England in February
this year. This seems rather a long time ago now! This was a
worthwhile venture and was an important thing to do to help raise
awareness of our existence.
People did come and
look at the stall, take leaflets and other information and we were able to
talk to Synod members. I am extremely grateful to Christine McMullen for
sponsoring the
display, to Dilys our Associate member on the Committee for organising
this event, and also to her and her family for bringing display stands,
pamphlets, leaflets, books etc. Without them we simply would not have
managed. I am also grateful to some of the London members for staffing
the stall, to Cilla for coming down from York to help, and to Jenny and
her son Julian for the posters. Jenny Dunlop, a Cheshire
Solicitor who has
helped many Broken Rites members is also a member of General Synod and was
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Our Presence General Synod:-
This is the first time we have arranged a display at
the National Assembly of the Church of England which consists of three
houses of Bishops, Clergy and Laity. They meet two or three times a year.
In February, they were meeting at Church House in Westminster.
We were sponsored by Christine, a member of
General Synod and our display was manned by different members of Broken
Rites over the four days Synod met. It gave us an unique opportunity to
talk to members of Synod and publicize our work.
Click here for
Christine McMullen's Booklist
Click here to see Broken Rites AGM in Edinburgh
in 2006
Click here for the visit to Northern
Ireland in October 2005
Click here for the
Residential committee Meeting held at Chester Retreat House in October 2006 BROKEN RITES STALL AT THE METHODIST CHURCH CONFERENCE
Ruth, the Non C of E Rep on the
Committee, has been able to arrange a Broken Rites stall on 7th 8th and
9th July at the Methodist Church Annual Conference to be held in
Scarborough this year.
I think this is a wonderful
new initiative and I am grateful for all Ruth’s hard work which hopefully
will help to raise awareness of the work of Broken Rites in that
denomination. I am sure we will all be interested to have an update in
the next edition of The Rite Lines. |
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