I was going through some papers yesterday and found a letter from Skip Adams dated September 6, 2007. In that letter Adams says:
"It is our intent to continue to support an Episcopal congregation in Vestal, housed in the the current St. Andrew's facility. To move forward with this ministry, you are required to vacate the three properties of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church by Sunday, October 15, 2007."
Do you see the timetable? We receive a letter from the bishop in the second week of September and he requires us to leave our church buildings including the rectory in four weeks time. Now, how does one find a house and close in thirty days? Is that reasonable? But that is what the bishop "required."
Below is a blog posting about Church of the Good Shepherd ("Dark Forces..."). In that posting that follows on postings from Fr. Matt Kennedy, his family was given a similar unreasonable time frame to depart the buildings of the Church of the Good Shepherd. This is the same church that the diocese recently sold to a Muslim group. The buildings of St. Andrew's were never used for another Episcopal congregation as the bishop says was the intent of the DCNY. They were sold to another church group.
Given Adams' mishandling of these two situations, the Fr. Bollinger and Ralph Johnson affair, the Thornfield closing, the sale of Church of the Good Shepherd to Muslims, the revolving door Canon to the Ordinary position (btw, in case you don't know, Karen Lewis is no longer the CatO of the DCNY), how is it that anyone has confidence in the leadership of this bishop?
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This is mind boggling. How can the bishop say that he is supporting the Great Commission when you sell a vacant church to a Muslim group? It is my understanding that the previous congregation was will to pay three times what they got from the Muslim group.
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