Vicar/Reader's Monthly Message

Greeting All. By the time you read this Christmas festivities will be a past memory and we will be in a new year.

Have you made any new year resolutions? I don’t normally, but this year I am making one as church warden for Emmanuel.

In February Emmanuel’s new building will have been finished for 25 years. Doesn’t time fly when you're enjoying yourself! BUT, and it's a big but, we as a church have not carried out much maintenance to the building. When was the last time you painted the outside of your house? I am guessing many times in the last 25 years. We have not!

Our general giving is taken by insurance, Parish Share, gas, and electric leaving very little for maintenance. This is why Sarah and I have reintroduced the Emmanuel fabric fund. This will only be used for the maintenance of the building. 

The first item is to protect the outside wood of the window frames. This will be carried out in the new year, by then we shall have a schedule of works. All this will cost. We will have fundraising events, but it is your commitment to keeping the building sound that the church of Emmanuel will still have a building to worship in.

I am sure as our name says God is with us