Constitutional Musings: Transferring Congregations and Other Forms of Corporate Witness
How does mission relate to transferring congregations?
What parties must approve a congregation's transfer?
Can a congregations transfer to a presbytery that it does not directly border?
Can a congregation transfer to a presbytery in a different synod?
Can worshiping communities, fellowships, new church developments, or other forms of corporate witness transfer into a presbytery that is not their geographic presbytery?
Where are non-geographic presbyteries found in the Book of Order?
Can a racial ethnic or immigrant entity that is not a congregation join or transfer to a presbytery that is not in its geographic presbytery?
Can transfers of multiple congregations be lumped together as a single item of council business?