Red Dragon......

[Trek]

....... on the main BBC News talking about the Methodist church in Wales. ;)

[diamondal]

Just beat me Trek ! :twisted:

[Trek]

Chatting to Phil last week and he said that his dad is looking to move on from Wales so these closures shouldn't affect him too much.

[Red Dragon]

We're moving next year because the funding for Mrs Dragon's post (she's also a minister) has run out. We can't afford for one of us not to be working, so that means we both have to leave. As there are no diaconal ministers' posts available throughout Wales next year, that means, ipso facto, that we'll be leaving Wales... but I can assure you, we are not "looking to move on from Wales" next year. We don't have a choice. If we did have a choice, we'd stay here in Pembrokeshire. As we don't have that choice, we might as well go the whole hog and come back to England to be nearer all which is important in our lives. Children, grandchildren, Diamonds... that sort of thing. But we're gutted to be leaving.

[Red Dragon]

Oh, and before anyone asks, I certainly did think about what I was going to wear when Robert Pigott interviewed me, and as I was going for a casual look, opted for my AFCR&D hoodie deliberately to try and get the badge on National TV, in the hope that you would all notice!

[Dazzler]

Link to video clip from the BBC Site - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19392050


(Image courtesy BBC site per link above)

Dwindling congregations at Methodist churches across Wales are transforming the landscape for worshippers, as more and more buildings are forced to close.

Chapels are being lost at the rate of one a week and Church leaders fear hundreds more may have to close their doors.

Robert Piggott reports.

[Red Dragon]

What really pisses me off about this report is that it isn't true.

I did not say, and it isn't the case, that we are closing one chapel a week in the Methodist Church, either in Wales or anywhere else. Such apocolyptic innaccuracy in a journalist or an editor really makes my blood boil.

It might be true that, statistically, across ALL denominations in Wales, there might be one chapel a week closing, but that makes it look like it's just us, the Methodists!

The grey haired bloke who spoke to half way through the report is nothing to do with me or the Methodist Church, yet they cut to him and make it look like he is, and then he does the Welsh religious version of Private Fraser when he isn't even closing any Congregational Chapels in Pembrokeshire anyway!

I'm beginning to hate the BBC!

[Everyweeker]

I'm beginning to hate the BBC!

I think I might agree with that sentiment for very different reasons of bias RD, but I understand your comments above.

I watched the report without paying 100% attention, and did assume it was the Methodists that were suffering the closure of one chapel a week.

On a related issue, it was pretty packed on the PDB last week, you may have to negotiate for your spot if and when you get to any games, as the 'old order' attempted to preserve our traditional locations!