Province 8 Removes Executive Council Representative

http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2008/1/25/province-8-removes-executive-council-representative

[The Living Church] 26 Jaqn 2008--The president of Province 8, the Rev. Jack Eastwood, announced Jan. 24 that the province’s executive committee has vacated the seat held by Ted Yumoto on the national Executive Council after Mr. Yumoto told them he had voted in December in favor of amending the canons and the constitution of the Diocese of San Joaquin to join the Province of the Southern Cone.

Fr. Eastwood said he was appreciative of Mr. Yumoto's “stable and consistent” leadership to Province 8 and the church but that provincial leadership “agreed that we need to have a representative who is professing to be a member of the Episcopal Church and not some other loyalty.” The committee is seeking nominations for a new lay representative, and hopes that person will be in place in time to attend the next Executive Council meeting February 11-14 in Quito, Ecuador.