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FWIW - one of the first decisions we made as we entered our 9 months of discernment on our continued relationship with the ELCA was to semi-freeze the membership roles. We did no "cleaning" of the roles and did not receive new members until after the second vote. If someone asked to be removed then we honored that. Our reason for doing this was two fold. First off we wanted to avoid any accusations of manipulating the roles. Secondly, we didn't feel it was fair to our visitors to accept new members until we got our house in order. We simply, welcomed them, explained the situation, asked them to pray for us and "hang in there" until all was said and done. We had five families join a couple of weeks after the final vote to join the NALC (one former ELCA Bishop among them) and will be having our second series of new member classes starting Sunday.
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