A year in the life of St. Mary Magdalen, Sheet

St. Mary Magdalen - Electoral Roll for the year 2004 – 2005

What is the Church Electoral Roll?
It is your parish church’s register of electors; it is the list of those qualified to attend and to vote at the Annual Church Meeting where the elections take place for

1. the parochial church council;
2. the parish’s representatives on the deanery synod.
3. Any person entitled to attend the Annual Parochial Church Meeting may raise any question of parochial or general church interest.

What difference does it make to be a member?

By enrolling you become a voting member of the Church of England and so help to ensure that all the Synodical councils of the Church – the Parochial Church Council, the Deanery Synod, the Diocesan Synod and the General Synod – are fully representative of its members. Synodical government gives an opportunity for partnership between bishops, clergy and laity in the life of the church.

The system is intended to enable church people at every level to be in touch with the church as a whole and to play a part in decision making. It is also intended to ensure that the laity has a place in every aspect of church life, including its doctrine and services.

Membership of the electoral roll is open to members of the Church of England (or of a Church in communion with the Church of England) who are resident in the parish or have habitually attended public worship in the parish during the period of six months prior to enrolment.

Those who are 16 years old, or become 16 during the next 12 months, may complete an application for enrolment, and become eligible to be entered on the roll on their sixteenth birthday.

Renewal of the Electoral Roll took place in 2002 and those on the previous roll were informed so that they could re-apply. At the 2004 Annual Church Meeting the number on roll was 224. Thirteen names have been added during the year and sadly four have been taken off as they have died. At the time of writing this report there are 233 names on the roll.

Daphne Clark, Electoral Roll Officer.