Affiliate
Membership is for persons who seek an affiliation with Prescott
Church, but who would also wish to maintain a non-Baptist denominational
affiliation or a membership in an out-of-town Baptist church.
One who would unite with Prescott as an Affiliate Member
would meet the following criteria:
- Embrace the Mission and Goals of the Church;
- Be a professing Christian;
- Live in the vicinity charactersitically served by Prescott;
- Freely elect to unite with the church at a worship service or business meeting of the church.
Upon specific request of a member and approval of the deacon body and the church, an out-of-town resident
could retain Affiliate Membership subject to the same policies for termination and continuation.
- By a majority vote of the full members present and voting at a worship service or business meeting.
Same as for Full Membership except as follows:
- Cannot be elected as a deacon or to a position that would place him/her on a governing body of the church;
- Cannot vote in
church-wide elections, but which does not exclude the Affiliate Member
from serving and
voting on established committees or ad hoc committees; - Cannot serve as a Committee Chair;
- On an annual basis,
at the request of the deacon body or the membership committee, the Affiliate
Member
will indicate his/her intention to continue as an Affiliate Member.
Affiliate Membership shall end upon:
- Relocation to
another vicinity, except when the member requests
and the church approves continued affiliation; - Recommendation
by the deacon body or membership committee,
following appropriate review, based upon inactivity of one year
or other disqualifying conditions.
- Death;
- Request for removal from the member;
- Change to Full Membership status;