A NEW JOB FOR THE LAY DIRECTOR

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Due to a catalogue of errors, not the least my hard disk packing in just at the wrong moment, there was no September edition of Go Fourth. I am now furnished with a new hard disk which has been very kindly loaned to me by Malcolm Brown, and so we're back in production. (Never let anyone tell you that new technology is fool proof!)

If the September edition had made it out, there would have been an article from Barbara Hood giving an outline of the function of a Diocesan Lay Director, and encouraging you all to consider if the post was right for you.

Barbara had held the post for three years as of the November Diocesan Ultreya, and I'm sure that you would all wish to join me in congratulating her on a job very well done. On a personal note, I cannot thank her enough for the help she gave me when less than a week before my Cursillo weekend in October 1994 I called to ask if my application had been received!

At the November Diocesan Ultreya an election was held, and Keith Craddock was duly elected to the post of DLD. Congratulations Keith: all our prayers are with you.

Barbara, on the other hand, barely had time to breathe before she took up her new rôle of Secretary for the British Anglican Cursillo Council. She takes up this post as BACC enter into a period of change. Cursillo in the UK has spread to such an extent now that a single committee with representation from all diocese is now getting unmanageable. There is going to have to be some form of diocesan groupings which work together and then appoint up to the National Secretariat; this will take some time, and will undoubtedly need a lot of time and energy expended upon it. Barbara definately, along with the rest of the National Secretariat will need our prayers and love.

I'll leave you with the PS from Barbara which was attached to her original article.

Geoff Riley

PS: Many thanks to you all for the love and prayers I have received during my three years as your Lay Director. After the last Secretariat and Lay Rectors' Meeting on the 10th September we were presented with a laminator by an anonymous donor. Many thanks to you, whoever you are. We now need lots of place mats to laminate.

Barbara Hood

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