Otherwise known as autumn church council season. All groups have to be accountable, and this is the time of year that methodist churches do their administrative homework - accounts, reports on property, forms for this and that.
We generally have church councils twice a year, and the autumn ones are dominated by the admin. As minister and chair of the meetings I feel like a teacher in front of a class asking them in turn to present their homework to be marked and to sum it up to the rest of the class.
And now, after the meetings, I am left to work through the pile of homework, check for any omissions, any signatures missing, etc before sending the forms on to the relevant people.
On a soggy wet night, and in areas that have had recent flood worries, it is hard to get the meeting beyond that homework mode (as we contemplate when the drive home might change into a swim and short meeting). It is necessary, it is important that we fulfil our accountability, but it is not my favourite thing and by the end of the month I will be glad to have it all over with.
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