ST. JOHN'S CHURCH

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 82, 27 November 1931, Page 6

ST. JOHN'S CHURCH

ANNTJAL MEETING. The annual congregational meeting of St. John's Presbyterian Church was held on Wednesday evening in the hall, when there was • a representative attendance. After the opening prayers, the minutes of the last annual meeting were read and confirmed. The Moderator, the Rev. A. C. Randerson, M.A., B.D., presided and made brief introductory remarks. It was decided to take the printed reports of the various Church activities as read, whereupon the session clerk, Mr. F. A. Gainsf ord, moved the adoption of the session report Messrs. G. E. Foster (treasurer) and G. Urquhart (secretary), moved and seconded a resolution for the adoption mf the managers' report and balance sheet ,and Mr. L. L. Bailey

moved the adoption of the various reports on the youth work of the Church. The general tenor of the speeches was a call to face honestly the facts of a decrease in the attendances and financial returns, and yet, considering the inevitable reaction of a very dull year upon church life, an even greater call for thankfulness and hope. The retiring managers, Messrs. J. B. Shiels and G. Urquhart, - were reeleeted for a further term of three years, and Messrs. Edwin Robertson and H. C. Smith i(new nominees) were added to the committee to .fill vacancies. It was decided to appoint a committee of ladies to welcome strangers to the church, another useful suggestion that was favourably received being the keeping of a visitors' hook, to have signatures and addresses of new-comers entered in it. Among those who took part ih the

discussions of business were: Messrs. Mathias, W. Jones, J. M. Roberts and Dean. Votes of thanks were passed: — To Mr. R. S. Miller, for varied and very faithful services and generous gifts; to Mr. G. E. iTbster, for his valued work as both treasurer and choirmaster; and to all the clerks, leaders and self-denying workers for all their labours of love. The gathering closed with a social eup of tea served by the ladies with their usual hospitality.