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Parish Giving Scheme
The Parish Giving Scheme is a secure, confidential system which also automatically collects Gift Aid and pays your gift direct to the church, reducing administration and without any fees to you or St Peter’s. You are always in charge, and can stop your gift at any time without having to tell the church.
If you would like us to keep in contact with you, please let us have your contact details. Pick up a post card from the back of church, or complete the form on line.
The Annual Parochial Church Meeting will be held in St Peter’s Church, Highfields on the 26th day of May 2024 at 11am
For election of parochial representatives of the laity as follows— To the Deanery Synod ONE representatives.1 To the Parochial Church Council FOUR representatives.
For the appointment of the Independent Examiner or Auditor.
Notes
Every lay person whose name is entered on the Church Electoral Roll of the parish (and no other person) is entitled to vote at the election of parochial representatives of the laity.
A person is qualified to be elected a parochial representative of the laity if –
his or her name is entered on the Church Electoral Roll of the parish and, unless he or is under 18, has been entered there for at least the preceding six months;
he or she is an actual communicant (which means that he has received Communion according to the use of the Church of England or of a Church in communion with the Church of England at least three times during the twelve months preceding the date of the election);
he or she is at least 16; and
he or she is not disqualified as referred to in paragraph 3 of these Notes.
(1) A person is disqualified from being nominated, chosen or elected or from serving as a churchwarden or a member of a parochial church council, a district church council or a joint council if the person is disqualified from being a trustee of a charity (and the disqualification is not subject to a waiver which permits membership of a parochial church council, district church council or joint council).
(2) A person is disqualified from being nominated, chosen or elected or from serving as a member of a parochial church council, a district church council, a joint council or a deanery synod if the person is included in a barred list (within the meaning of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006).
(3) A person is disqualified from being nominated, chosen or elected or from serving as a member of a parochial church council, a district church council, a joint council or a deanery synod if the person has been convicted of an offence mentioned in Schedule 1 to the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (with that expression being construed in accordance with Rule 71(2) of the Church Representation Rules).
(4) A person’s disqualification under sub-paragraph (3) may be waived by the bishop of the diocese by giving the person notice in writing.
(5) A person is disqualified from being nominated, chosen or elected or from serving as a member of a parochial church council if the person has been disqualified from holding office under section 10(6) of the Incumbent (Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977.
4 A scheme is in operation in this parish which provides that any person entitled to vote in the elections of parochial representatives of the laity to the parochial church council or to the deanery synod or to both may apply on the appropriate form to the Minister of the parish (or other person signing below) for a postal vote. The completed form must be received before the commencement of the annual parochial church meeting.
4 This paragraph should be deleted if no scheme for postal voting is in operation in the parish.
Sing Joyfully to the Lord, you righteous It is fitting for the upright to praise him. Praise the Lord with the harp, Make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre. Sing to him a new song, Play skillfully and shout for joy.
As Christians we hope and pray that our response will be of service to our community, but we MUST keep praying.
We hope to offer three routes:
Worship and Prayer
facebook.com/stpetershighfields – where we will stream services and prayers, similar to those we would normally gather together for. You can also find our prayers and worship on YouTube
We are still experimenting with this, which we will do via Zoom video conferencing and phone calls.
Private Prayer
We have produced a booklet Praying Today which we will happily send out to you, or you can download it. Please note, things are changing quickly, and we will update our Facebook page first.
It contains ideas for prayer plus the liturgy we follow for morning and evening prayer.
You can now check whether the New Hall or the Old Hall is available on our web site.
Simply go to www.stpetershighfields.co.uk/halls for a full calendar.
We will also update prices and booking terms and conditions on line.
You will then be able to phone and provisionally book.
Payment can be made in cash or debit card (in person or over the phone).
The scaffolding is, at last, slowly being removed from the tower and revealing some of the work ..
There is still some work to do. The turret, which sits on top of the spiral staircase, is all being replaced. Each stone is cut individually to form a beautiful waterproof top.
The new stone will quickly weather, but is crisp and clear compared to the old stone – which has been in place for almost 150 years. However, all the stone has been worked by qualified stone masons in the same way.
And where the scaffolding had been removed we can see the stone all safe and secured
This work has been funded through the hard work of the congregation, the generosity of the communities we serve and through support from Heritage Lottery and Leicester Diocese.
St Peter's Highfields 