[Magdalen] Sharing the JOY!

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Roger Stokes

>Ginga, I rejoice with you for all the reasons you cite.  I have excerpted this 
>one because I think it raises potential issues.  Are the people at St Paul's 
>likely to issue the transfer letter?  What happens if they don't - cam the 
>member still be welcomed as a voting member at

Roger, I suspect that many Episcopalians don’t know about "Transfer Letters, and 
they're rarely sent/requested.

The in most parishes the rule for voting is "regular' attendance during the past 
year and being known to the treasurer (emphasis on the latter). I did see a 
vestry member candidate disqualified for lack of a letter of transfer once --  
but she was seen as a threat to the parish -- organizing prayer circles and  an 
Evening Prayer service including lots of prayer outside the normal scheme of 
things. But she was seen as a threat to the entrenched church leaders so they 
treated her as shabby as a church could treat someone. She moved on to another 
parish where prayer led by someone other than clergy was accepted as normal.

I did a letter of transfer from St James St James to St Paul's K Street. But 
subsequent parishes did not follow up on requests *and St Paul;s K St couldn't 
find my record, though I later found the book and like), and of the nine 
parishes where I;ve been a member, no one seemed to care as long as my pledge 
was current <g>.

Cheers,
Jim