2020 BBC Annual Report

SAFE CHURCH
The purpose of Safe Church is to make our church a safe environment for everyone. Our work
involves managing polices and ensuring we comply with regulatory requirements/legislative
changes. An important responsibility is the safety of children; where able, we seek to minimise the
risk of misconduct or abuse.
Yvonne, Jenni, and Peter chose to resign from their roles following the decision on the Working
With Children policy. Stephen Carle has also stepped down as Safe Church Concerns Person. We
thank them all for their work and appreciate their contributions to the church. Gillian Ward has
recently joined, and we are looking to add more members to the team. The remaining members are
Bruce Ward and myself.
Much of 2020 has been at a stand-still with the ongoing coronavirus crisis. We had planned to run
a Safe Church Awareness Refresher workshop in July, but this had to be cancelled. Online training
is available as an alternative and we will be sending out details for this soon.
Some outcomes from the past year:
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Ran a CPR course with all attendees passing
Developed new Working with Children Policy
Developed new leadership appointment procedures
A few things we’re aiming to do:
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Improve our documentation and Safe Church manual.
We all look forward to being able to meet again in-person and worship together.
David Muir
COMMUNICATIONS AND STAFF
It is said that God is in all things and as a Diaconate we have certainly witnessed and experienced
his hand in guiding us through the challenging times of COVID19.
I currently have the privilege of serving in the Communications and Staff portfolio within the team
and have enjoyed the areas of responsibility that have enabled us as a church to continue to come
together and grow and learn as a united community under God.
Staff Portfolio
Over the last year the activity in this role has been the engaging of our wonderful Interim Pastor
Charles Lazaro who has led and rebuilt our Pastoral Care network with resounding success. Pastor
Charles who is also very active for the Lord has been involved heavily in supporting Pastor Rod and
instigating the rebirth of what was known as the PSA to a monthly Hymn singing service called
‘Songs that Bless your Heart’. Along with his wife Marg it has been a pleasure interacting with
Pastor Charles.
I also recently facilitated a change of personnel of Heather Bakker to Heather Agnew in the role of
Office assistant within the church. Whilst it was sad to see Heather B move on it has been
refreshing to see how God has worked in the process of highlighting Heather A for the role which
began on the 1st of July. We do wish Heather B all the best and welcome Heather A!