Canticles of the Unhomed
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Go Forth into the Wilderness and There It Shall be Built
So we are on track to becoming a full fledged member of the Evangelical Free Church of Canada. Now that I am a DENOMINATIONAL pastor, does that mean that I have to have some kind of denominational loyalty; that I have to defend the denominational party line? Knowing the District Superintendent that I will be working under, definately not. However, I wonder what will become expected of me by the denomination, and the other pastors in the district. I can't believe that I am actually worrying about being accepted. Wow.
We finished our constitution last night. It was pretty easy, as things like this go. The church that I used to pastor, when we were doing our constitution, the process took six months: we would take one draft back to the congregation, have to make a bunch of changes, argue for a few hours over inconsequential wording, then go make the changes, and the process starts all over again. In the case of the House, we had it done in about three hours, and we emailed it out to the congregation today, and we should be able to ratify it on Sunday.
So after this, we need to register as a religious society, and so on. The short of it is that it will be much easier for us to buy our Building once we have our non profit status, so we are trying to expedite that process as much as possible. We plan to be accepted officially into the denomination at their fall conference, which I think is in October. I think we should have everything together to send off to the government within a couple of weeks. Of course, that is when the real struggle begins. Stinkin' government. What's all this drivel about the separation of church and state? Feh.
Haven't written in awhile. Need to get back to it. But before that can happen, I need to find some equilibrium in my life. I need to find some rhythm.
We finished our constitution last night. It was pretty easy, as things like this go. The church that I used to pastor, when we were doing our constitution, the process took six months: we would take one draft back to the congregation, have to make a bunch of changes, argue for a few hours over inconsequential wording, then go make the changes, and the process starts all over again. In the case of the House, we had it done in about three hours, and we emailed it out to the congregation today, and we should be able to ratify it on Sunday.
So after this, we need to register as a religious society, and so on. The short of it is that it will be much easier for us to buy our Building once we have our non profit status, so we are trying to expedite that process as much as possible. We plan to be accepted officially into the denomination at their fall conference, which I think is in October. I think we should have everything together to send off to the government within a couple of weeks. Of course, that is when the real struggle begins. Stinkin' government. What's all this drivel about the separation of church and state? Feh.
Haven't written in awhile. Need to get back to it. But before that can happen, I need to find some equilibrium in my life. I need to find some rhythm.
:: written by Matt Thompson, 12:30 PM
1 Comments:
This is cool stuff Matt. I'm glad to hear The House has been able to work through some of these initial administrative details with a spirit of consensus.
I pray that God's richest blessings will be continuously present in your every move.
I pray that God's richest blessings will be continuously present in your every move.
