St. Christopher’s, Spartanburg Splits, Rector & Vestry Majority Resign

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[Stand Firm] 8 May 2008--I have been in contact with a former member of the vestry at St. Christopher's, Spartanburg, this week and other key people, as well as a number of other parishioners over the past six months, and with those conversations in mind have put together a summary timeline of the events of the past several months.

Six vestry members (among them the Senior Warden), the parish treasurer, the Rector, and a staff member resigned on Monday, May 5, [one of the six vestry members resigned on Sunday evening]. Additional vestry members may resign or depart the parish later. Monday's events were the culmination in the short term of the past six months of discernment by the vestry and the parish -- but in the long term, they are the consequences of the heretical actions of the national church's leadership [General Conventions, House of Bishops, Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori, and the Executive Council] over the past four years, the effects of which have been felt in every parish in the diocese.