Last night The Church Mouse posted this scintillating church marketing leaflet on Twitter. I imagine that it’s actually pretty tricky to come up with a good picture to illustrate a deanery synod recruitment brochure, so I do understand that this may have been the best of the options available. However, it does lend itself to some alternative captions. So for this weekend only I offer you a caption competition. And as I seem to have a spare e-book code for The Ministry of a Messy House, there will even be a prize. So join the fun – how would you caption this picture and recruit for deanery synod?
The Vicar's Wife 
The best description I’ve ever heard of Deanery Synod is “34 people waiting to go home”!
The joke was they were glued to their seats! how we laughed!
Lay Synod, I prefer a lie down.
Join Deanery synod, because we need someone new to tell our stories and pet gripes to.
“Hello, my name is Christine, and I am a member of Deanery Synod.”
Spot the five marks of mission!
Later it became evident how prescient the cover picture of an inward looking circle of white people had been …
Go on, you know you want to…
It won’t be as bad as you think. Honest.
Competition now closed!