Senior Pastoral Care Council

Tonight is the annual meeting of the senior pastoral care council. They actually meet quarterly, but once a year (in theory) they meet with the Divisional Commander to review the rolls and talk about discipleship and pastoral care within the Corps.

The membership of the SPCC is the DC or her representative, both Corps Officers, CSM Neil Stokoe, CS Lynette Ritter, our recruiting sergeant (currently a vacant position but a role being fulfilled by Judith Lear), and other soldiers appointed with the approval of the DC. In our case this includes Judith, Dorothy Russell, June Steer and Les Shute. It is hoped that we will soon be able to include a soldier from the 4pm congregation.

Their job is to:

• Track the progress of newcomers to the Corps
• Track the progress of new converts
• Approve new members, both adherents and soldiers to be enrolled
• Accept membership transfers or transfer members to other Corps
• Propose pastoral follow up of missing members or members to be removed from the roll
• Make efforts to help members that have been away from church
• Assist Junior Soldiers who wish to become senior members
• Advise and support the Corps Officers in pastoral efforts

Please pray for this group as they meet.