Bay PC (Bay Village, Ohio) Dismissed $700,000

Layman Story: Presbytery dismisses church after $700,000 commitment

Bay PC website

Western Reserve Presbytery

• $100,000 a year for seven years
• May 28 Presbytery Vote: 135-13-8
• $1.4 million if the congregation:
• ceasing its affiliation w/ EPC
• sale of more than 35% of the property
• Failure of payment
• EPC congregation to keep its name
• membership of 2,071 (2007)
• 2007 Budget $2.96 million.
• Western Reserve's commissioners voted 131-73 in favor of repeal fidelity/chastity
• No litigation was begun during the dismissal process