Crop­well meet­ing’s clerk decid­ed to step down this month (he’s turn­ing 88 and thought it a good time!). We had a nice cel­e­bra­tion for him on Sun­day. A few years ago the meet­ing had dwin­dled down to two reg­u­lar mem­bers; on some Sun­days, only one of them would show. He assem­bled a group to help bring it back from the brink of being laid down with a sucess­ful open house in 2021 and since then we’ve had six new mem­bers join. 

We had a whole process planned to select a new clerk but it turned out that I was the only one who said I’d con­sid­er the role (maybe not so uncom­mon a phe­nom­e­non in small meet­ings?). I’ve joked that I’ll have it back down to two mem­bers by the end of next year, but in all seri­ous­ness I’m hop­ing we’re blessed with keep­ing the momen­tum going.