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In the life cycle of a community of faith, change is natural, and it might happen in a variety of ways, such as “relocating,” “realignments,” “reforming” (all of these are in the Manual as descriptors of congregational lifetime changes - G.1.3), “migrations,” “mergers,” and more.
The Remit and Proposals process was designed to allow for democratic input from the appropriate groups within the denomination so that the decision-making process is upheld with integrity to ensure our identity as a conciliar church and to give voice to all. We have recently witnessed “legal loopholes” allow for prior Remits to be circumvented using the Proposal process.
While there is a great deal of accountability for ministry personnel within the denomination, there is little accountability for the vocational office overseeing the review and discipline process.
We believe that the Holy Spirit is calling us to demand the Canadian Government to take more action based on international law as regards the Israeli caused genocide in Gaza.
