Goodbye and thank you

One of the UCAN Directors – Colin Rye – stepped down from his place on the Director’s Board over the summer. For many years, as Executive Pastor at Christ Church Virginia Water Colin was an extremely active member of the UCAN network and was also on the Oversight Group, working alongside John Truscott. When Colin left church administration to work as DAI UK’s CEO & Senior Consultant, he continued as a UCAN Associate and still served on the Oversight Group. In summer 2017, when the Oversight Group transitioned to the UCAN Board of Directors, Colin became a Director and bought invaluable experience and perspective on Governance and Strategic planning into UCAN in particular.

As much as we wanted to keep Colin forever, after his retirement from DAI UK last March we knew that at some point we would have to let him go! Colin resigned from the Board in July after a thorough and careful hand over of his responsibilities. We will miss him greatly on the Board, but we wish him every success as he enters retirement and continues to be very active in his local church. I hope that you will join us in thanking Colin for all that he has done to serve UCAN so well and so faithfully and that you will pray for him, his family and his church for the next season ahead.

UCAN at New Wine

Thank you to all the UCAN members who came and supported the networking events over the two weeks of New Wine and for those who attended the seminar led by Andy Bagwell in Week 2 on ‘The Spiritual Gift of Administration’. Andy spoke about the crucial importance of this gift to the people of God and provided ways for those attending to think about how effective, creative and strategic administration can advance the Kingdom of God in their home church contexts. It was really well attended and the feedback afterwards was very positive.

It was good to meet people at the networking events who were considering joining UCAN and looking at ways to develop church administration in their contexts and we are delighted that a number of you have since signed up for UCAN – welcome!

Planning for the Autumn ...

Planning for the Autumn ...

Summer is the time to encourage advanced planning and adequate preparation for the autumn. September will most likely bring increased activity and busy-ness as well as new visitors to your church. What a crucial time in the annual lifecycle of a church! To help you prepare, here are UCAN’s top 10 tips for your autumn planning, helping you be at your best for ‘game time’ in September…

A fistful of data

A fistful of data

On 25 May this year GDPR legislation became law and many churches will have spent a good deal of time and energy trying to ensure that both their members and others had signed the appropriate forms and given the appropriate permissions to store and use their personal data.  See our related paper on GDPR implementation here (link).

But now the deadline has come and gone, I wonder how much time and thought has gone into what happens next?

Cheque payments

With apologies to all those of you who have sent cheques to pay for subscriptions or other services.  We are currently experiencing difficulties with our postal provider and you may find the cheque you have sent is returned to you.  If you need to pay for your subscription by cheque please send it to the Treasurer, 2 Garridge Close, Albrighton, Nr. Wolverhampton WV7 3PZ.  We hope to resolve this issue as soon as possible and apologise for any inconvenience caused.