That is the great thing about moving. You can you can use it as a prompt to review all sorts of things - like what aspects of church you help with or whether moving boxes of things from one loft to another is really all that sensible.
So we took the opportunity to rationalise the number of worthy causes we give money to.
Over the years we'd built up a large variety of small monthly donations to a wide variety of charities. This wasn't part of a grand strategy but more to do with myself being caught on the street by insistent and persuasive chuggers.
As my wife is going to be a curate at one church then which church to give to is a fairly easy decision. For those whose better halves have multiple churches and parishes to serve I guess the situation is trickier.
So as you move to a new parish(s) my advice would be to use it as a prompt to review old habits and customs you've grown into without really intending to.
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