At the end of another long day with a particularly long stint at my village church Cragg Vale. Beginning at the Archdeacons at 3-00p.m. and finishing with PCC at 8-15p.m. the whole discussion went around what we were going to do to reorder or renovate the church. This is a difficult time for us. We have spent over ten years planning to do something and now we are actually going to have to do something… which should be exciting but also feels a little daunting.
I often wonder what my predecessors felt like when they were doing things like this. The first vicar of Cragg Thomas Crowther who had to build the church twice. He built one and then ten years later it fell down with the weight of snow on the roof and he had to build our present church. A later vicar who couldn’t get the PCC to pay for the new pews he had had installed and so had to be bailed out by his predecessor’s wife. Ironically these are now the pews that we want to remove to carry out our scheme.
I guess they felt like I feel: a bit tired, a bit scared and a bit faithful that things will work out.
In Romans 8 Pauls says this: “we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
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