KNOX CHURCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26229, 13 August 1946, Page 6

KNOX CHURCH

ANNUAL REPORT After referring with gratitude to the leadership of the Very Rev. D. C. Herron and his associate minister (the Rev. O. X. Baragwanath), the annual report of Knox Church states that during the year the position of church nurse has been filled by the appointment of Miss Marian Friis, of Wellington. Nurse Friis has proved':herself to be a worthy successor to former nurses, . ~ Additions to church membership during the year have been 131—44 by profession of faith and 87 by certificate Disjunctions have been 120-99 by certificate and 21 by death and removal from the roll. The present membership is 1056 (an increase of 11), apart from the supplementary roll. Attendances at communion were: September 711 December 612, Mavcn 778 June 695; average 699 (being an increase of, 40 over the average for last Ve The reports received from the various session committees deputed to visit toe numerous organisations of Knox have this vear been most Intel esting, and have mdicrted a healthy life in the many aspects covered. Especially has this been evident in the youth organisations, and thanks are expressed to the many leaders whose work has been so faithful and of such a high standard. A . „ . . The report of the Deacons’ Court states that the amount received through the envelope freewill offering system was £2227 18s lOd, ah increase of £Bl 2s 3u on the amount received in the previous year. The total receipts, excluding special funds, amounted to £3854 10s 2d, and the expenditure, including transfers to special acccounts, to £3817 Bs. sd, leaving a balance in the general account of £37 Is 9d. The proportion of envelope offerings allocated to “ ourselves ” was £1309 Is lid, an Increase of £42 4s lOd, Plate offerings at £9BO 13s lid showed a further increase of £9l 2s 6d. The total received for the assembly enterprise and other benevolent purposes was £2057 11s Id. This included missionary and other enterprises covered by tne assembly’s budget, £1434 12s Bd, Maintenance of the Ministry Fund (special offering), £231 14s 9d; P.S.S.A., £134 10s 8d; Greek relief. £7l 4s 6d: home missionaries’ Christmas boxes, £6B 11s sd; food for Britain, £2l 17s 4d; Patients and Prisoners’ Aid Society, £2O 16s 6d, emergent schemes, £29 4s 9d; and other amounts totalling £44 18s 6d. The amount actually paid over for assembly enterprises (not including the special offering £231 14s 9d for maintenance of the ministry) was £1457 is 3d, being £137 7s 3d more than the allocation. This again included £3OO from one family for one of the missionaries The amount paid over represented a contribution' of £1 7s 5d per member on the roll at the-end of the financial year. Form time to time during recent years attention has been drawn to the need, gradually becoming more urgent, for extenseive repairs and renovations in and about the various buildings. The Works Committee recently submitted to the court a comprehensive list of works that it considered necessary, and this has been referred to the Finance Committee to consider ways and means. The report on missions states that the Rev. M. R. Robinson, who has already spent five years in the Punjab, is now Knox Church’s own worker in India. In China the church has Dr Graham Milne, who already seems to be filling a very large place in the Kong Chuen Hospital and the surrounding district.