York Association of Atlantic Baptist Churches

                        DRAFT: Nov. 10, 2002  Notification of Upcoming Changes

YORK ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTIC BAPTIST CHURCHES

C/o Brunswick Street United Baptist Church

161 York Street, Fredericton, NB  E3B 3N8

E-mail:  yorkassociation@yahoo.com

 November 14, 2002

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 Dear «FirstName»: 

By now you may have heard the York Association of Atlantic Baptist Churches is undergoing a restructuring.  The Sub-Committee of the York Association charged with this undertaking has been hard at work following the Fall Association Meeting authorization to proceed.  Changes are being made which we believe will make the York Association of Atlantic Baptist Churches a more effective organization. 

Look for upcoming information in late November presenting your new Executive Committee and Association team structure. 

Also get ready to nominate your representatives to your York Association team of Atlantic Baptist Churches.  You are eligible to nominate 1 or 2 or 3 representatives, depending on the size of your church.  This must be done no later than Feb 1^st.  You will receive more information about this in mid December. In this way we can collectively carry out that work of our Lord which cannot be done by us as individual churches. 

If you have access to the Internet, please visit www.oocities.org/yorkassociation which is our new website.  If you have an e-mail address, please send it to us at the e-mail address at the top of this letter.  If you don’t have access to the Internet, please consider doing so because it is by far the easiest and cheapest way to get information to you regarding our Association’s activities.  Another possibility is to find someone in your congregation who is online and who would be willing to pass along new information as it becomes available. 

This is a very efficient way to keep you informed regarding important government and social issues – like for example, Bill C-250, the proposed Hate Crime legislation which is currently being studied by the Justice Committee in Ottawa before being presented to Parliament for it’s 3^rd and final vote.  This is the legislation by which parts of the Bible could be interpreted by the Supreme Court judges as being hate literature due to its pronouncements regarding homosexuals.  Information about this is posted on our website. 

Yours truly,

 Karl Csaszar

Chairman of the Transition Sub-Committee.