Dear Friends, based on exhaustive analysis and endless research, it is my joy to share with you the fruits of my labours in pie charts - a breakdown of the typical people who attend a Church AGM, that annual celebration of people's inability to publish and/or read material in advance, thereby stretching what would otherwise be a fifteen-minute meeting into a three or even four hour spectacular. And a summary of their average distribution of the use of those three or four hours.
I should point out that, this being a pie chart rather than Venn diagram, inevitably some simplifications have been made. For example, the ministers could entirely possibly be Martians, but I needed to show both categories for those occasions when the Martians are members of the laity. After all, Martians are people too.
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| Typical AGM Make-up |
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| Use of time in AGM |
I've just returned from our APCM. We didn't have enough people there to have one in each of your 11 categories. We had 50% standing for election; 0% ministers (we are in interregnum); 50% people who vote in favour of everything. We re-elected the entire PCC (4 members present, 2 in absentia) and failed ot have any nominations for Churchwardens or Deanery Synod rep.
ReplyDeleteOn the plus side, we finished the Vestry Meeting, APCM and the first meeting of the new PCC (at which we re-appointed the secretary, rtreasurer adn electoral roll officer)in 1 hour 15 minutes - a record which is almost certainy due to the fact that, with no vicar, we had a layperson in the chair.
An everyday story of rural parish folk!
You have no clergy or churchwardens? Who causes the arguments?
DeleteIt is often extremely unwise to be absent from some meetings, because you might find yourself nominated and elected in absentia to some post no one else wants.
ReplyDeleteYes, especially if someone's good at forging your signature.
DeleteMethodists would need a quiche chart
ReplyDeleteAnd a flan of action?
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