General Chapter Diary: Finance
Today’s proceedings at the general chapter focusing on finance could suitably be placed under the proverbial heading: ‘cut your coat according to your cloth’.
A lively awareness that careful consideration is required to keep a balance between all aspects of our missionary endeavours and the means at our disposal has taken hold.
Within this context a number of issues dealing with matters such as the careful stewardship of what we have been entrusted with, sustainability and self-reliance were discussed with great interest and some passion.
The morning coffee break provided a welcome moment away from the intense exchanges and saw a number of capitulants glued to the television screen watching the pageantry of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebration at St Paul’s cathedral.
Gallery of capitulants:
Does the Fleming Dunn fund still exist ( for feeding children in Asia).