Next Tuesday, the 12th of July we have a very special Church Meeting.
As many of you will already know via the email we sent out earlier in the week next Tuesday your Leadership Team will be proposing a motion that MBC offers Shelley Dring the permenant role of Church Lead. This decision follows much debate amongst ourselves, long discussions with Shelley and of course tons of prayer.
Naturally we would like to see as many of you as we can in church but for those who cannot make it in person we are arranging for the meeting to be broadcast on Zoom.
After doing the job for the best part of two years and being laregly responsible for steering MBC into what we would like to think is a period of post Covid recovery your Leadership Team are confident that Shelley – alongside a team of “specialist volunteers” is absolutely the right person to lead this church into a new, exciting, challenging and dare we say possibly very different era.
One important thing to note about next Tuesday, and we have alluded to it above is the fact that as we have all seen Shelley in action for some considerable time i.e. we know her, her style, her theology etc. etc. we have asked that instead of coming to “meet us”, or as it were “preaching with a view” she either Zooms or pre-records a message which we will show in church.
In other words on the night there will no formal Q and A session. Instead, and based on what we already know, and more importantly on what we believe God is saying to us a discussion amongst members taking in the finance aspect of this proposal, prayer and then hopefully a vote is all that will be required.