The Council advises the Rector on all matters connected with the well-being of the Parish. Although its function is formally only advisory, the Rector sits on the Council as its president, and any proposal on which a consensus is reached, or of which a majority including the Rector approves, is thereby put into effect. Fundamentally the Council’s job is to see that every activity which ought to be pursued in the Parish is in fact being satisfactorily pursued, and to recommend new programmes or the revision of existing programmes where this seems necessary. The Council’s task is then to see that these decisions are carried out by the appropriate Council Committees or by officers of the Parish. To this end the Council acts as a two-way channel of communication, between parishioners and parish groups on the one hand and the Rector on the other. The parishioners are represented on the Council by the appointed members, and the parish organizations by the ex officio members.