Annual Report 2002

Heavenly Father
enfold us in your love,
and empower us by your Spirit
that we may work
for the coming of your kingdom
and draw all people
to you through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Background

The PCC and the Shared Ministry Team have the responsibility of co-operating with the incumbent, the Rev David Trollope, in promoting in the Parish the whole mission of the church - its worship, growth and care, evangelism as well as its outreach and Ecumenical co-operation and St Luke's Halsall school. The SMT are

Rev Barbie Chambers and Rev Margaret Quayle - Curates
Mr Alan Lewney - Lay Reader
Mr Peter Owen, Mrs Sandra Tickle - Churchwardens
Mr Eric Linford - Treasurer
Mrs Joyce Wade - Administrator.

The PCC also has maintenance responsibility for the Church, Church Hall and Parish Centre at 71 Liverpool Road, Crosby.

The PCC is a Charity exempted from registration with the charity commission.

Membership

Incumbent:	Rev D Trollope	Chairman
	Rev B Chambers	Ex-officio
	Rev M Quayle	Ex-officio
Wardens	Dr P Owen Mrs S Tickle	from 2001 APCM from 2002 APCM
Readers	Mr K Cawdron Mr P Heritage Mr A Lewney Mr S Cornforth Mr S Woods
Representatives on the Deanery Synod	Mr P Firth Mr P Naylor Dr P Owen Ms J Sumner Mr J Pulman
Elected members	Mrs A Henders Mr B Jones Mr E Linford Mr S Matthews Mr T Perry	from 2000 APCM
	Mrs J Heritage Mr H Hollinghurst Mr A Reeves Mrs H Roberts Mr H Whitaker	from 2001 APCM
	Mr L Davey Mr P Dobson Mr P Moffatt Mrs L Moore Mr J Morris	from 2002 APCM
Treasurer	Mr E Linford	from 2002 APCM
Secretary	Mrs L McDowell

Bank - Barclays Bank PLC, Liverpool North, Great Crosby.
Independent Examiner - Mr Alan Bruford
Quinquennial Architect - Mr Geoffrey Naylor

Committees

The PCC works closely with the Shared Ministry Team, the Standing Committee & the Premises Committee. The Standing Committee meets as required between PCC meetings to transact business guided by the PCC.

Church Attendance

There are 309 parishioners on the church Electoral Roll 2002, 147 of whom are not resident within the Parish. There were 58 deletions from inside the parish and 48 deletions outside the parish since last year.

The average Sunday attendances were as follows:

	2002	2001
9:00 am	62	68
11:00 am (inc Baptisms)	109 + 58 children	126 + 61 children
6:30 pm	30	29

The average Sunday attendance for all services for 2002 was 204, compared to 226 in 2001.

Review of the year

Since the last Annual Parochial Church Council Meeting the PCC has held six meetings.

There was an average attendance of 2 Clergy and 16 Lay Members at each meeting.

This year matters discussed have included:

Shared Ministry Team
Youth Worker
11.00 am Service
Parish Administration
Crossroads Development
Sound System in Church
Protection For All
Finance
Quota By Potential
Vision Statement
Church Maintenance and Premises
World Mission
150th Anniversary of St. Luke's Church
Here and Now - Outreach
Regular report from Halsall School, the Diocesan and Deanery Synods and Churches Together in Crosby.

Finance

The total resources used for running all the activities of St Luke's church were £187,975.

The total incoming resources were £200,806.

The giving of the congregation was £136,992.

A total of £39,468 was given away to other charities.

The PCC encourage every member of St Luke's Church to give 5% of their income after tax to the church and 5% to other charities.

The Fabric of the Church and the Hall

We are pleased to report that the ornaments and goods of the church have been checked and are in good order. The Terrier has also been checked and found to be correct.

During the year 2002 the Maintenance Team continued their good work. Most of their time is spent cleaning the inside of the church and maintaining the graveyard and the rest of the grounds.

Quinquennial Inspection - Following receipt of the revised quinquennial inspection report in January 2002, the PCC drew up a list of necessary work. Because the necessary faculty had not been received before the end of the year little of this work was carried out in 2002, but it is intended that all the work in the main body of the church, including redecoration, will be completed in time for the flower festival in October 2003.

Church Grounds - An area of ground adjacent to the Hall has been leased to the Crossroads trustees for the construction of their new Centre. An old garage on this site, used for storage, was demolished

Church Exterior - The second stage of repointing the external Church walls (part of the south wall) was completed in 2003.

Church Hall - Replacement of windows and external decoration of the Hall continued in 2002. A start was made on re-arranging the storage space inside the Hall (this was completed in early 2003).