St. Giles Presbyterian Church Leaves PCUSA for ECO

Layman Online Story: St Giles Pays $250,000 for exit from PCUSA

• June 18 meeting of Presbytery of the James dismissed by voted 137-39
• "we’re paying nearly twice the average (settlement price) as a church of our size."
• October 2011: 18-0 session vote
• January 2013: Straw Vote: 178 for, 8 against, 7 abstentions
• May 2013: 165 of 175 congregants for
• Presbytery had an investment portfolio totaling more than $4 million at the close of 2012.
• Faced with the possibility of losing the church property, St. Giles’ leaders put off some needed repairs to the facilities as well as a capital campaign.
• Four other churches are seeking to be dismissed by the presbytery.
  • Christ Presbyterian-ECO
  • Crestwood Presbyterian-ECO
  • Third Presbyterian (Richmond) -ECO
  • Spotsylvania Presbyterian (Fredericksburg) - EPC