We've had a really interesting

discussion on patronage today and it's just great to hear of the opportunities we have to appoint really good ministers into churches around the country and to help parishes to choose wisely and to make good appointments themselves.

Church of England's got lots of struggles and Church Society wants to renew our life in Christ and the parishes.

I think Church Society has a particularly unique insight in that it is connected well to lots of parishes around the country, lots of smaller parishes, the sort of normal parish life.

And I think Church Society is uniquely able to contribute and encourage because of its knowledge of what it's really like on the ground.

It will be great to have some non-clergy as part of that and maybe from areas that we're not very well represented at the moment in terms of culture and context, it will be great to see some more of those, give those voices an input into how we want to see the Church of England

Please come and join Church Society Council.

It's a great place to learn about governance and to learn and to contribute to the wider church.