Episcopal News Service on the admission of new parishes to vote for realignment.While the resolution (Resolution A located here) notes that the diocese has a goal of planting ten new congregations by 2010, at least one of the parishes-to-be is a community formed earlier this year after some members of St. Francis-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Somerset followed the then-rector, Mark Zimmerman, out of the parish. A January 22 diocesan statement said that Zimmerman and the others "desired immediate action to separate from the national church" while others in the parish "while deeply disturbed with the direction of the national church, wished to take a slower course."
So you have to ask why do they want to be admitted to the Episcopal Church now?
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_101314_ENG_HTM.htm
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Obviously they want a voice in the future of the diocese, and they should have one. Several of these missions already have ASA much larger than many of the tiny parishes with votes today. The Slippery Rock mission would already be in the top twenty in the diocese in terms of ASA.
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