Electoral Roll

Electoral Roll Revision Each year we are legally required to review our electoral roll – in 2020 we are not obliged to scrap the current one and start again (phew) as in 2019, but it is necessary for the electoral roll officer (me) and David Swales to look through the list of names to make sure it remains appropriate. The criteria for being on the roll are, briefly: • membership of the Church of England or church subscribing to the same doctrine • being baptised and aged 16 years or over and • either being resident in the parish or (if not resident in the parish) having habitually attended public worship at St Christopher’s during the preceding six months • completion of the application form. Those who are prevented from attending through illness or other legitimate reason, but who have previously attended St Christopher’s regularly, are still eligible to be on the roll. The formal notice about the revision of the roll will be put on both the church and parish notice boards in early March with the revision taking place between 31st March and 10th April 2020. Copies of the revised roll, which will have names but no other personal data, will be available for inspection in the 14 days before the annual church meeting on 26th April 2020. If you are not already on the roll, but would like to be and think you are eligible – we’d be delighted to discuss this with you, so please don’t hesitate to ask me or David Swales about it. Application forms are available from the table at the back of church, or from me. Kath Matheson, Electoral Roll Officer 07944 624 832/01625 574893 kmmpott@yahoo.co.uk Church View Cottage, Pott Shrigley, SK10 5SA. * * * Two American preachers were visiting in Germany and attended Sunday services. Since they couldn’t speak German, they decided to do as the man sitting in front of them did. A few minutes into the service the preacher from the pulpit said something and the man in front of them stood, and they stood also. The congregation burst into laughter. They then sat down when the man did. At the end of the service, they met the pastor and found that he spoke English. They asked him why everyone laughed so much when they stood? The pastor explained that he had announced that they would have a christening service that evening, and would the father of the child please rise. * * * After the Christmas and New Year festivities, the wife gingerly crept onto her bathroom scales to weigh herself. She pulled a sad face. Her husband asked: “What’s the matter? Are you overweight?” “Well, not if I was six inches taller.”

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