This year has been busy both
personally as well as in my role as rep for the members of Broken Rites
who are not Church of England.
The highlight of the year was my
attendance at the Church of Scotland Assembly in May last year with Nancy
Hughes. I am sure that the profile of separated and divorced clergy wives
has been raised by the sensitive lobbying and contact in person, with
those who attend the Assembly. It
gave me a very good insight of how the Scottish members have been working
quietly away at that event and together with others, I shall try to take
that model forward particularly in my contacts with the Methodist, URC and
Baptist Churches.
I have had some contact with
individual members through the year but recognise that I have not done all
that I would have liked to have done.I have had some conversations with
the Methodist Church and am working at building on that contact. I am
looking forward to making more contacts in this year coming and to have
more representation in person where and when I can.
Broken Rites is an
Interdenominational organisation and we on the committee are very
conscious of that fact.