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Re: Nathan Morton Announces he's Leaving UPC
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Originally Posted by Neck
Isn't it true that most affiliated churches are affiliated because they took Home Missions money to help start, build and expand the church.
If that were not the case in the starting of this or any church the UPC would have no legal standing to force the church against the will of the church board. All Nathan Morton would need to do is turn in his card with the UPC and pastor the church.
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Nakedstat,
Yup you are correct. To receive Home Missions money you have to have the church affiliated. I know an exUPC pastor whose UPC Home Missions church on the East Coast had a dickens of a time when they wanted to leave the Mothership. He told me he had to pay the UPC money (I assume what they had put in the work) to be able to disaffiliate.
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