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HOUSTON AND KILLELLAN KIRK
Joint Session and Congregational Board Meeting on Tuesday 7 June 2011.
MINUTES
The Session and Congregational Board of Houston and Killellan Kirk met at 7.30pm on Tuesday 7 June 2011, in the Church Hall with the Rev. Donald Campbell, Minister in the Chair. The Rev. Donald Campbell constituted the Meeting with a prayer.
Sederunt/Apologies:
50 members attended the Meeting as detailed in the Sederunt book. Apologies were received from 5 members.
General Assembly:
Mr Allan Gilfillan gave a very interesting and detailed report following his attendance at the General Assembly. Allan will pass his copy of the ‘Blue Book’ to the Church library so that any members of the Congregation can read reports of interest. These are also on the Church of Scotland website and Allan has a DVD with soft copies, if anyone would like a look at these.
OSCR – Houston and Killellan Kirk Church Extension Project.
Mrs Helen Dunn updated the meeting on our application to OSCR for charitable status for the above Project. The standard application for charitable status normally requires the forms to be completed and signed by each and every trustee, in our case all members of the Session and Congregational Board. However, to avoid such a cumbersome process, OSCR are prepared to accept an application signed by the office bearers, provided it is accompanied by an Extract from Minute of both the Session and the Board, approving such a step. Helen asked that the Meeting approve the application in this form. The proposal was unanimously approved by the Meeting. Proposed by Mr Roy Anderson and seconded by Mr Allan Gilfillan.. The form will be signed by the Rev. Donald Campbell as Chairman, Mr James McBeath as Secretary and Mr John King as Treasurer. Other office bearers can and will be appointed in due course.
Child Protection:
Mrs Sandra Griffiths presented the following report:
As there have been no requests for disclosure through the new PVG scheme as yet, there has not been the opportunity to request the new paperwork. Sandra is sure that come the start of the new session for youth groups there will be the need to process some new recruits. During the first year of the PVG scheme it will only be new applications for people becoming volunteers or paid members of staff for the first time that will be processed. Existing volunteers who already have Enhanced Disclosure Scotland checks will not need to join the scheme until sometime between February 2012 and February 2015.
Congregational Zone Meeting/-
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Congregational Zone Meeting:
The Chairman reported on correspondence he had received from the Presbytery regarding the above meeting to be held at the Cornerstone, Bishopton on 30th June at 7pm, and gave a brief summary of what would be discussed. The Rev Campbell, Mr Roy Anderson, Mrs Caroline Morrison, Mrs Belle McNeill and Mr Jack McKechnie will attend.
Financial Report:
The Treasurer, Mr John King presented his report and highlighted a number of items on the Account for the 4 month period to the end of April, 2011, both of which had been circulated previously. To date the updated Bank Statements had not been received so the Accounts remained the same as those presented to the Congregational Board at their last Meeting. The Carnival income is now almost £9000.00 which was felt by the Meeting to be a great success.
Church Extension Project:
Mr Ian Cameron gave a detailed update on the Project to the Meeting, in particular the proposed Woodland car park, and invited any questions or comments.
Killallan Service:
The Service this year will be held 1 week earlier than as in previous years on Sunday 26 June 2011. The Killallan Bell will be rung on the 12 and 19th June.
AOCB:
- Mrs Eleanor Hood informed the Meeting that Eco Congregation Scotland had now become a Charity and if we wished to continue our membership there would be a fee involved, the cost of which will not be known until later. A decision will be taken with regard to this after the SAGM in March.
- Roll Away the Stone – an overview of the day in Edinburgh was given by the Chairman, in general it was agreed that it was a good starting point but that lots of improvements could be made.
- Our Missionary Partners had been contacted to enquire as to whether there would be a container going to them later this year as there were a number of items that could be shipped in this, from our Congregation. A number of members do send items on a regular basis by mail but if a container was available a greater effort could be made.
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Date and time of next Meeting – 30 August 2011 (this is a provisional date and may be subject to change).
There being no further business the Meeting was closed at 9.10pm with the Blessing.
Rev Donald Campbell Mrs Ina Jefferson
Chairman Clerk to the Board
