Civilised church meeting shock!

It was our church’s Annual Parochial Church Meeting yesterday. For non-CofE types, this is when we elect the Parochial Church Council (which essentially deals with the business side of being a church – the vicar deals with the spiritual/pastoral matters) and sundry other people, and hear reports on the past year. Sadly, for the past few years these have been a horror of the highest order; hearing grown men and women act, quite literally, like 5-year-olds is not fun. Whispering loudly while someone is talking, mock gasps when they say something you disagree with (wooOOOoooh). I mean, we’d have told Adam off for behaving like some of these people were, and he’s only 3!

However, this year, it all went off very well – almost normally, in fact. There were a few little moments but nothing out of the ordinary. It was like a breath of fresh air! I really hope that this is a good sign that people are starting to work together for a change, but I have a nasty suspicion that it’s got something to do with the fact that the bishop‘s looking into the whole problem at the moment and we are expecting his report soon. So, perhaps, they were just behaving “for the cameras”, as it were. But I hope not.