GLEN WAVERLEY UNITING CHURCH
MEETING OF THE CONGREGATION
To be held in the Church on Sunday 27th July 2025 following 10:00am worship.
A printable version of this agenda will attached here.
AGENDA
1. Welcome
2. Prayer
3. Confirmation of Minutes of Meeting held on 24th November 2024
The minutes of the November meeting of the congregation are at CongMeetingMinutes20241124
4. Election of 2025 Church Councilors
A report of the election of Church Councillors on March 22nd is at CongMeetingReport20250322
It is planned to hold and election for the 2026 Church Council in March next year following a similar timeline to that followed this year. Details on the CongregationalPage.
5. Congregation Annual Report
Following the practice adopted last year, an annual report for 2024 was published as a special edition of Kingsway.
The annual report edition of Kingsway is available attatched here.
6. Reports and Recommendations
6.1. Ministry Team Report
Some good news about some of our programmes (for information)
6.2. Church Council Report
6.3. Property Report
6.4. Finance Report
6.5. Congregation Outreach Projects for 2024
Using the procedure for selection Congregation Outreach Projects (CopOverallProcedure) the Congregation Outreach Projects Selection Panel (names to be added) - drawn from members of the Outreach and Social Justice Mission Group - will present recommendations concerning projects to receive funding from the proceeds from this year's fete in October.
6.5.1. COP Selection Panel – Report to Congregational Meeting, 28 July 2024
To be added.
A brochure containing information about COP 2025 Recommendations will be attached here.
Proposed Resolutions
a. all profit from the 2025 Fete is to be distributed to Charity
b. the charities presented to the meeting shall participate in the distribution of 2025 Fete profits
c. the charities will receive funding as presented to the meeting
d. that the Outreach and Social Justice Mission Group is to advise the Congregation of the final allocation to all charities, in the first available Bulletin after the Fete profit is finalised
7. Other Business
Although not essential, it would help the chair manage the agenda and time if members of the congregation could let the chair know before the meeting of matters that they would like discussed.