Constitutional Musings: Transforming Congregations and Other Forms of Corporate Witness

Constitutional Musing #26.

Contents:

• 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 worshipping 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?