14/9/21
Adam Dillon Sole Nominee: after a rigorous selection process, the Nominating Committee unanimously voted to propose Reverend Adam Dillon as our sole nominee. Adam will be known to many of you; he was a student with Sherbrooke St Gilbert’s from October 1999 through to May 2000. The Nominating Committee was delighted that Adam has accepted our invitation to be our Sole Nominee and he will be preaching at Sherbrooke Mosspark Parish Church onSunday 26th September. Please contact the office if you would like to attend the service that day; alternatively the service will be live streamed and available on our website after the service.
Voting process: all those who were on the Electoral Register on 6th April (communicants and adherents) will receive their ballot papers by post over the course of the coming week. Each letter will enclose a ballot paper and return envelope which are identified with your unique reference number. For those households with more than one vote, please use the separate envelopes provided. The votes may be cast directly after the service on Sunday 26th September or returned by hand or post (please use a first-class stamp). The ballot will remain open for seven days and close at 12 noon on Sunday 3rd October, 2021. The count will occur on Tuesday 5th October and soon afterwards the result will be declared. If for any reason your ballot papers haven’t arrived by mid next week, please contact me, Janis or Shona.
The Call: following the results of the ballot, the Interim Moderator will invite all members of our congregation to subscribe to the Call. The Call is a signed list of all those who wish Adam to be our next minister and will be available for people to sign over an 8-day period from 6th to 14th October either at Church or during the Church office hours. Could I please ask you to sign the Call; it is an important part of the election process as it provides a firm endorsement of our wish to call Adam as our minister. If you are unable to sign the Call and would like someone to sign it on your behalf, please contact me for further details.
With thanks
Clare
Adam Dillon Sole Nominee: after a rigorous selection process, the Nominating Committee unanimously voted to propose Reverend Adam Dillon as our sole nominee. Adam will be known to many of you; he was a student with Sherbrooke St Gilbert’s from October 1999 through to May 2000. The Nominating Committee was delighted that Adam has accepted our invitation to be our Sole Nominee and he will be preaching at Sherbrooke Mosspark Parish Church onSunday 26th September. Please contact the office if you would like to attend the service that day; alternatively the service will be live streamed and available on our website after the service.
Voting process: all those who were on the Electoral Register on 6th April (communicants and adherents) will receive their ballot papers by post over the course of the coming week. Each letter will enclose a ballot paper and return envelope which are identified with your unique reference number. For those households with more than one vote, please use the separate envelopes provided. The votes may be cast directly after the service on Sunday 26th September or returned by hand or post (please use a first-class stamp). The ballot will remain open for seven days and close at 12 noon on Sunday 3rd October, 2021. The count will occur on Tuesday 5th October and soon afterwards the result will be declared. If for any reason your ballot papers haven’t arrived by mid next week, please contact me, Janis or Shona.
The Call: following the results of the ballot, the Interim Moderator will invite all members of our congregation to subscribe to the Call. The Call is a signed list of all those who wish Adam to be our next minister and will be available for people to sign over an 8-day period from 6th to 14th October either at Church or during the Church office hours. Could I please ask you to sign the Call; it is an important part of the election process as it provides a firm endorsement of our wish to call Adam as our minister. If you are unable to sign the Call and would like someone to sign it on your behalf, please contact me for further details.
With thanks
Clare
9/9/21
Rev Adam Dillon – Sole Nominee for our Next Minister
After a rigorous selection process for our next minister, culminating with interviewing five candidates on Saturday 4th September, the Nominating Committee unanimously voted to propose Adam Dillon as our sole nominee.
The Rev Adam Dillon will be known to many of you; he was a student with Sherbrooke St Gilbert’s from October 1999 through to May 2000. Adam’s theological studies have been based at Glasgow University, Princeton and Aberdeen University, taking up his first Parish Ministry post in Knightswood St Margaret’s in 2003. From there he moved to St Andrew’s in Moffat for ten years, returning to St David’s Memorial Park Church in Kirkintilloch in 2018. Adam has had a close connection with the Lodging House Mission and has taken on a variety of roles within the General Assembly and Presbyteries in Annandale and Eskdale as well as Glasgow. Adam is married to Sheila and they have four children, Rebekah, Oliver, Callum and Isabella.
The Nominating Committee was delighted that Adam has accepted our invitation to be our Sole Nominee and he will be preaching at Sherbrooke Mosspark Parish Church on 26th September.
Please contact the office if you would like to attend the service that day; further details will be provided on our voting protocol in due course.
Clare
Rev Adam Dillon – Sole Nominee for our Next Minister
After a rigorous selection process for our next minister, culminating with interviewing five candidates on Saturday 4th September, the Nominating Committee unanimously voted to propose Adam Dillon as our sole nominee.
The Rev Adam Dillon will be known to many of you; he was a student with Sherbrooke St Gilbert’s from October 1999 through to May 2000. Adam’s theological studies have been based at Glasgow University, Princeton and Aberdeen University, taking up his first Parish Ministry post in Knightswood St Margaret’s in 2003. From there he moved to St Andrew’s in Moffat for ten years, returning to St David’s Memorial Park Church in Kirkintilloch in 2018. Adam has had a close connection with the Lodging House Mission and has taken on a variety of roles within the General Assembly and Presbyteries in Annandale and Eskdale as well as Glasgow. Adam is married to Sheila and they have four children, Rebekah, Oliver, Callum and Isabella.
The Nominating Committee was delighted that Adam has accepted our invitation to be our Sole Nominee and he will be preaching at Sherbrooke Mosspark Parish Church on 26th September.
Please contact the office if you would like to attend the service that day; further details will be provided on our voting protocol in due course.
Clare
2/9/21
This Saturday, 4 th September, is a very special day for our church. The Vacancy Committee are interviewing the candidates who have applied to be our Minister. Please pray that God will bless and guide them and help them choose the right candidate to be our Minister.
Brenda
This Saturday, 4 th September, is a very special day for our church. The Vacancy Committee are interviewing the candidates who have applied to be our Minister. Please pray that God will bless and guide them and help them choose the right candidate to be our Minister.
Brenda
New Minister
Vacancy Process – 23rd March Update
As I indicated in my first Session Clerk newsletter, with Tom’s imminent retirement, our near-term priority will be working together to find a new minister. Lots of work has been going on and I just wanted to provide you with an update on the progress made:
Interim Moderator appointed: we are lucky to have had Mark Johnstone, Minister of Glasgow Cathedral, appointed as out Interim Moderator. He administers the vacancy process in conjunction with us. Mark will be leading our service on 11th April when some important elements of vacancy process will commence.
Vacancy schedule: we now have our ‘vacancy schedule’ from Presbytery which is the formal document giving us the go-ahead to move forward with the appointment of a new permanent minister.
Locum minister: good news here too. Douglas Clark, recently retired minister from Lenzie Old, has agreed to become our Locum minister. He will start with us on 1st May, directly after Tom’s retirement.
Electoral Register and Nominating Committee
Given the Covid restrictions impacting worship and related activities, the protocols for the Electoral Register and Nominating Committee have had to be adapted. In drafting these protocols, due notice has also been taken of the Vacancy Protocol (v2, 16 July 2020).
Overview: in line with the Vacancy Procedure Act V111 (2003) the following notices will be read out at the appropriate Sherbrooke Mosspark’s Church services, placed in the order of service and positioned on the Church website. This approach is being adopted to ensure anyone who feels they should be on Sherbrooke Mosspark’s Electoral Register is given due consideration by the Keeper of the Roll and Session Clerk.
In addition, from Sunday 28th March, individuals who feel they should be on Sherbrooke Mosspark’s Electoral register should notify Christine Higgison, Keeper of the Roll, or Clare Williams, Session Clerk, via the church office (email: sherbrooke-init@btconnect.com or telephone: 0141 427 1968). It would be preferred if all notifications are received on or before 6th of April. However, notifications can still be received by 11.15am on Sunday 11th April 2021.
The Electoral Register will be agreed in principle at the Kirk Session on Wednesday 7th April with ratification by the Kirk Session on Sunday 11th April. On Sunday 11th April, ahead of the Electoral Register being attested by the Kirk Session, the Interim Moderator will outline to the Kirk Session how the Electoral Register has been available and enquiries dealt with.
Clare Williams
Session Clerk
Vacancy Process – 23rd March Update
As I indicated in my first Session Clerk newsletter, with Tom’s imminent retirement, our near-term priority will be working together to find a new minister. Lots of work has been going on and I just wanted to provide you with an update on the progress made:
Interim Moderator appointed: we are lucky to have had Mark Johnstone, Minister of Glasgow Cathedral, appointed as out Interim Moderator. He administers the vacancy process in conjunction with us. Mark will be leading our service on 11th April when some important elements of vacancy process will commence.
Vacancy schedule: we now have our ‘vacancy schedule’ from Presbytery which is the formal document giving us the go-ahead to move forward with the appointment of a new permanent minister.
Locum minister: good news here too. Douglas Clark, recently retired minister from Lenzie Old, has agreed to become our Locum minister. He will start with us on 1st May, directly after Tom’s retirement.
Electoral Register and Nominating Committee
Given the Covid restrictions impacting worship and related activities, the protocols for the Electoral Register and Nominating Committee have had to be adapted. In drafting these protocols, due notice has also been taken of the Vacancy Protocol (v2, 16 July 2020).
Overview: in line with the Vacancy Procedure Act V111 (2003) the following notices will be read out at the appropriate Sherbrooke Mosspark’s Church services, placed in the order of service and positioned on the Church website. This approach is being adopted to ensure anyone who feels they should be on Sherbrooke Mosspark’s Electoral Register is given due consideration by the Keeper of the Roll and Session Clerk.
In addition, from Sunday 28th March, individuals who feel they should be on Sherbrooke Mosspark’s Electoral register should notify Christine Higgison, Keeper of the Roll, or Clare Williams, Session Clerk, via the church office (email: sherbrooke-init@btconnect.com or telephone: 0141 427 1968). It would be preferred if all notifications are received on or before 6th of April. However, notifications can still be received by 11.15am on Sunday 11th April 2021.
The Electoral Register will be agreed in principle at the Kirk Session on Wednesday 7th April with ratification by the Kirk Session on Sunday 11th April. On Sunday 11th April, ahead of the Electoral Register being attested by the Kirk Session, the Interim Moderator will outline to the Kirk Session how the Electoral Register has been available and enquiries dealt with.
Clare Williams
Session Clerk
The following notices will be used in the Vacancy communication process:
Form C – Supplementary (Covid) 2021
Preparation of Electoral Register – intimated on Sunday 28th March and Sunday 4th April by Revd Tom Pollock, placed in order of service and positioned on church website
Notice is hereby given that in view of the forthcoming vacancy, due to Tom Pollock’s imminent retirement, in this congregation of Sherbrooke Mosspark, the Kirk Session is about to make up an Electoral Register. This Electoral Register is a list of those who will be eligible to vote when the time comes to elect a Nominating Committee and subsequently in the election of a new minister.
If your name and current address are already on the Communion Roll, then you will automatically be placed upon the Electoral Register. You will need to take no further action.
If you are a regular worshipper here, but are still a member of another congregation, and you wish to participate in the election of a minister to this congregation of Sherbrooke Mosspark, then you should arrange to hand into the Keeper of the Roll or Session Clerk a valid Certificate of Transference before the Kirk Session meets.
If you are a regular worshipper here, and not a member of this or any other congregation, then the Kirk Session can add your name to the Electoral Register as an ‘adherent’. If you wish the Kirk Session to consider this, you should obtain a form from either the Keeper of the Roll or the Session Clerk, complete it and return it to the Church office before the Kirk Session meets.
The Kirk Session will meet via zoom on Wednesday 7th April 2021 at 7.30pm to make up the Electoral Register in principle, with ratification on the 11th of April.
Mark Johnstone
Interim Moderator
Download Form C
Form C – Supplementary (Covid) 2021
Preparation of Electoral Register – intimated on Sunday 28th March and Sunday 4th April by Revd Tom Pollock, placed in order of service and positioned on church website
Notice is hereby given that in view of the forthcoming vacancy, due to Tom Pollock’s imminent retirement, in this congregation of Sherbrooke Mosspark, the Kirk Session is about to make up an Electoral Register. This Electoral Register is a list of those who will be eligible to vote when the time comes to elect a Nominating Committee and subsequently in the election of a new minister.
If your name and current address are already on the Communion Roll, then you will automatically be placed upon the Electoral Register. You will need to take no further action.
If you are a regular worshipper here, but are still a member of another congregation, and you wish to participate in the election of a minister to this congregation of Sherbrooke Mosspark, then you should arrange to hand into the Keeper of the Roll or Session Clerk a valid Certificate of Transference before the Kirk Session meets.
If you are a regular worshipper here, and not a member of this or any other congregation, then the Kirk Session can add your name to the Electoral Register as an ‘adherent’. If you wish the Kirk Session to consider this, you should obtain a form from either the Keeper of the Roll or the Session Clerk, complete it and return it to the Church office before the Kirk Session meets.
The Kirk Session will meet via zoom on Wednesday 7th April 2021 at 7.30pm to make up the Electoral Register in principle, with ratification on the 11th of April.
Mark Johnstone
Interim Moderator
Download Form C
Form E – Supplementary (Covid) 23rd March 2021
Confirmation of Electoral Register – intimated on Sunday 11th April, placed in order of service and positioned on website
Notice is hereby given that the proposed Electoral Register of this congregation of Sherbrooke Mosspark has now been prepared.
If you believe that your name should be on the Register, you can ask for confirmation that it has been included immediately after the service from the Keeper of the Roll, Christine Higgison or from the Session Clerk, Clare Williams. The Session Clerk will be available at church on Sunday 11th April and can also be contacted through email or by telephone. Although notifications were requested on or before 6th of April, any further notifications can still be received by 11.15am on Sunday 11th April 2021.
If your name is not on the proposed Electoral Register, and you believe it should be, you should inform the Session Clerk in writing (email) before the Kirk Session meets to finalise the register directly after the service on Sunday 11th April at Sherbrooke Mosspark church. You would normally be welcome to attend that meeting, however, email, telephone or attendance are required if you wish to make the case for your name to be included.
Mark Johnstone
Interim Moderator
Download Form E
Confirmation of Electoral Register – intimated on Sunday 11th April, placed in order of service and positioned on website
Notice is hereby given that the proposed Electoral Register of this congregation of Sherbrooke Mosspark has now been prepared.
If you believe that your name should be on the Register, you can ask for confirmation that it has been included immediately after the service from the Keeper of the Roll, Christine Higgison or from the Session Clerk, Clare Williams. The Session Clerk will be available at church on Sunday 11th April and can also be contacted through email or by telephone. Although notifications were requested on or before 6th of April, any further notifications can still be received by 11.15am on Sunday 11th April 2021.
If your name is not on the proposed Electoral Register, and you believe it should be, you should inform the Session Clerk in writing (email) before the Kirk Session meets to finalise the register directly after the service on Sunday 11th April at Sherbrooke Mosspark church. You would normally be welcome to attend that meeting, however, email, telephone or attendance are required if you wish to make the case for your name to be included.
Mark Johnstone
Interim Moderator
Download Form E
Form G – Supplementary (Covid) 2021
Election of Nominating Committee – intimated on two Sundays (28th March and 4th April 2021), placed in order of service and positioned on website:
Notice is hereby given that a meeting of this congregation of Sherbrooke Mosspark will be held in the Church on Sunday 11th April at the close of morning worship for the purposes of appointing a Nominating Committee. The task of the Nominating Committee will be to nominate one person to this congregation of Sherbrooke Mosspark to be the new minister.
At that meeting, the congregation shall be invited to elect up to 13 people, who are on the Electoral Roll of this congregation of Sherbrook Mosspark, to serve on the Nominating Committee. If you wish to propose anyone to serve on the Committee it is requested this be done in writing (email) prior to the Church service on the 11th of April. However, you may propose someone at the congregational meeting after the service. It is important any nominee has indicated a willingness to serve.
Mark Johnstone
Interim Moderator
Download Form G
Election of Nominating Committee – intimated on two Sundays (28th March and 4th April 2021), placed in order of service and positioned on website:
Notice is hereby given that a meeting of this congregation of Sherbrooke Mosspark will be held in the Church on Sunday 11th April at the close of morning worship for the purposes of appointing a Nominating Committee. The task of the Nominating Committee will be to nominate one person to this congregation of Sherbrooke Mosspark to be the new minister.
At that meeting, the congregation shall be invited to elect up to 13 people, who are on the Electoral Roll of this congregation of Sherbrook Mosspark, to serve on the Nominating Committee. If you wish to propose anyone to serve on the Committee it is requested this be done in writing (email) prior to the Church service on the 11th of April. However, you may propose someone at the congregational meeting after the service. It is important any nominee has indicated a willingness to serve.
Mark Johnstone
Interim Moderator
Download Form G