After we left TEC I quit following the issues as closely as I used to, I was only too glad to shake the dust of the place from my sandals.
Do you know, they STILL have us on the rolls of the diocese? I tried and tried to get us taken off, but they refused. The only way it could be done would have been to transfer out-of-diocese to a parish with a sympathetic rector, then have him quietly drop us from the rolls. Which seemed like acting a lie, so we never did.
But that leads me to believe that the "membership" figures TEC posts are rotten to the core. If you look at "ASA/Average Sunday Attendance" that sure seems to bear out the notion that there are a lot of phantom phannies in the pews (or not).
TEC is going to have quite a time trying to sell that property, I imagine. Talk about 30 pieces of silver! I hope it chokes them.
oh, the whole Truro and Falls Church story breaks my heart. I KNOW that it’s about the faith and the parishioners but those parishioners did not deserve to lose the physical buildings to the greedy diocese.
We’d gone to Truro way back before the ECUSA got out of control. It was a faith-filled parish. We went again a few times after it joined with the African based diocese. Good people there.
The properties of both Truro and Falls Church could not be better located in prosperous, burgeoning Northern Virginia communities. Truro is smack in the middle of the City of Fairfax, and, ta da, Falls Church in the center of the City of Falls Church (which was named for that church).
We’ve not followed enough to know what’s going on now, if they are conducting services there, who is attending, who (if anyone) stayed with the physical plant of either church under the control of the Richmond Diocese, and/or where others have chosen to attend.
We also left the EC some 25 year ago or so and I am SURE we still show on the books. I don’t have the stomach to pursue the matter. One thing they don’t have is my body or soul. They can keep the name on paper if it makes them feel good ;)