06/06/2026
Apparently this week is "volunteers week" an opportunity to thank and show appreciation for the fabulous contributions volunteers make across all walks of life. Churches rely heavily on the time, skills, generosity, wisdom and willing of volunteers, from doing flowers, pastoral visits, cutting grass, serving on committees, booking in baptism, leading music, making gallons of tea and coffee, remembering to buy loo roll, hosting toddler groups the list is endless.
While Inclusive Church don't need quite the same things, we too are hugely blessed by the contributions of so many of our members helping to bring the IC vision that step closer. From trustees, to regional ambassadors, church leaders, advocates etc
But from a personal POV I'd like to give a specific shout out to one volunteer specifically.
This is Emma.
She came on board helping out behind the scenes with various operational admin stuff in November. Right in time for the LLF Open Letter, which was quite the baptism of fire. Since then she's done amazing work assisting with our data clean-up, replying to emails, finding answers to questions we didn't necessarily know we had, helped me to stop procrastinating and actually finish a few things, proof-reading, tidying up digital designs and being a (sometimes incredibly bluntly honest) sounding board.
Basically making my life a whole ton easier!
We've never actually met in person. Not yet. So yay for technology!
But thank you Emma for all you've been bringing to IC central. It is MASSIVELY appreciated :)
(Next year I'll try and think of doing this earlier and thus list many more people!)
Rev'd Chantal
National Coordinator
Who are you thankful for?
