So...we weren't a parish, but an organized mission, but we were railroaded in any case.

Yesterday the vice chancellor of the Diocese of West Virginia gave me a copy of a letter dated 11 April 1994 in which the vestry of Saint Andrew's-on-the-Mount requested a change from parish to mission status. I had not seen this letter before. However, the Diocese had also failed to follow Canon 11 Section 5 which says they could have changed us to an unorganized mission IF we had failed to send a delegate to convention for 3 years or failed to pay our share for clergy. NOTHING ABOUT CLOSING. I informed them of this Friday evening.

The Diocese has done us wrong:

The Diocese of West Virginia refused to seat the delegate from Saint Andrew's-on-the-Mount on Friday, 24 October 2008.
On Saturday, 25 October, the Vice Chancellor ruled that a substitution for Resolution #4

Resolved, That the 131st Convention of the Diocese of West Virginia hereby rescinds the closing of Saint Andrew's-on-the-Mount Episcopal Church


could not be considered because the submitter had no standing in the convention. Delegate Robert DuBose moved to strike resolution #4 to recognize Saint Andrew's-on-the-Mount on the grounds that it was a main motion substantially the same as the refusal to seat the delegate. Hence no vote was taken. The vice chancellor then recommended the defeat of resolution #5 because it contained "five hurdles" that he said where was no chance of achieving. The resolution was defeated unanimously.

This was a real railroad job.