Prologue Common to the Five Posts of Letters Written to My Church 2012-2019: I trust and hope that these five postings of the letters I have written to my church answer to a sufficient degree the concerns and view that my letter of September...
Letters Written to My Church – 2017
Prologue Common to the Five Posts of Letters Written to My Church 2012-2019: I trust and hope that these five postings of the letters I have written to my church answer to a sufficient degree the concerns and view that my letter of September 2020, withdrawing my membership from the Evangelical...
Letters Written to My Church – 2018
Prologue Common to the Five Posts of Letters Written to My Church 2012-2019: I trust and hope that these five postings of the letters I have written to my church answer to a sufficient degree the concerns and view that my letter of September 2020, withdrawing my membership from the Evangelical...
Letters Written to My Church – 2019
Prologue Common to the Five Posts of Letters Written to My Church 2012-2019: I trust and hope that these five postings of the letters I have written to my church answer to a sufficient degree the concerns and view that my letter of...
Discovering that the Post Office Collection Box Had Been Removed from the Front of My Local Post Office and Its Subsequent Ever-Widening Ripple Effects in My Life Ending with Final Thoughts on an Email Discussion Abandoned by a Friend without a Final Response – Part 1
The “Featured Photo” for this posting is of the space in front of the post office where an outside mail collection box had stood for decades but was now gone. Prologue: On August 18, 2020, I went to my local post office to mail off the postcard stories for that week and I discovered that the Post...
Discovering that the Post Office Collection Box Had Been Removed from the Front of My Local Post Office and Its Subsequent Ever-Widening Ripple Effects in My Life Ending with Final Thoughts on an Email Discussion Abandoned by a Friend without a Final Response – Part 2
The “Featured Photo” for this posting is of the space in front of the post office where an outside mail collection box had stood for decades but was now gone. I Decided to Respond. In the morning, I understood that I needed to compose a response to my friend to honor our friendship and the number...
Letter Withdrawing My Forty Year Membership from My Church
September 24, 20*** Letter Withdrawing My Forty Year Membership from My Church September 24, 2020 Grace Community Church Chairman of the Board of Elders Dear Chairman Board of Elders, I am writing to withdraw my membership from Grace Community Church. With great sadness, and at times...
Email Exchange from a Kind & Gracious Leader at Church Following My Letter Withdrawing Membership
Prologue: I sent my letter withdrawing membership from my church on September 24. On September 25, I received a short response from a friend in leadership acknowledging my leaving, then a longer one from him on September 26 expressing concern and offering to talk. What follows...