To think that the church of england should shut down half of their churches

[ReallyTired]

There aren't enough priests and many churches are in completely the wrong locations to support a congretation. A lot of quaint churches are expensive to maintain.

I feel that some really quaint churches in villages could be made into wedding venues rather than parish churches. I would like to see a situation where anyone can choose to get married at the really pretty church in the lake district with no working congretation.

Even in towns there are too many churches in a short distance. I feel that existing buildings could be used in more imaginative ways that would support the entire community.

When my son's voice breaks he will not be allowed to sing at weddings. He can get pocket money by ringing the bells at weddings.

My son is having a really hard time with choir at the moment. He doesn't have the maturity of the girls in the choir. He is a typical messy disorganised hormonal boy. The choir want him to mentor a young boy who has joined, but my son can't manage his own organisation yet help a younger child.

The structure of an Royal College of Church Music choir favours girls in their late teens. For exampe the head choister is the treble who is furthest up the ribbons and this is always a girl at our church.

he wonmt be allowed to sing at weddings? that's insane!
I can't imagine having a choir that doesn't consist of all 4 voices at a wedding (or any occasion for that matter)
youcan't sing O Thou the Central Orb without men!

I wonder whether it might be worth him finding a choir that values his contribution and learning to ring bells as an extra. at our church all choristers are paid when they sing at weddings

by the way, there's no such thing as the royal.college of church music, it's the royal.school of church music, and its voice for life programme does not favour girls'/womenmsvoices.
your churchnmight be set up like that, but not because of the rscm

your church's head chorister is always the chorister furthest up the ribbons.
the rscm has no fixed structure for head choristers, it's entirely down to the choir.
some choirs have a boy head and a girl head. some churches choose heads based on other things, some have elections etc.

nickelbabe
I have sent you a personal message rather than completely send this thread off tangent.

My son is very able at singing. He went to an RSCM summer school in bath where from all accounts he did really well. It was the first time that he had sang with boys of his own age.

My son has a complete mismatch in musical ablity and maturity. I don't think he is immature as recently he had a very good parents' evening at school. I think the problem is that our church has unrealistic expectations of twelve year old boys.

thankbyou. imve replied.

I am a bit annoyed at your sonms cgoir.

(or typing that makes sense)