Membership
GENERAL DONATION
A copy of the current financial statement of Ecumenicon Fellowship is available by writing Ecumenicon Fellowship at 3205 Kimberly Road, Hyattsville, MD or by calling (240) 764-5748. Documents and information submitted under the Maryland Solicitations Act are also available, for the cost of postage and copies, from the Maryland Secretary of State, State House, Annapolis MD 21401, (410) 974-5534.
(Help Ecumenicon Fellowship achieve our goals, you may change the amount from $1 to any amount).
If you prefer to send payment by mail please send by mail to:
Ecumenicon Sponsorship
c/o Charles Butler
3205 Kimberly Road
Hyattsville, MD 20782
240-764-5748
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS - PASSAGES THIS YEAR
Our friend and colleagues Blessing Bird (Rev. Amy Paul) and Dudley Cutshaw died of cancer this year. Blessing Bird passed in October 2011, Dudley in December 2011. They will be greatly missed. If there are others of our fellowship who have passed, including parents and relatives of our members, please contact the Trustees at trustees@ecumenicon.org so that they may be added to the Ancestor Altar.
Membership
Membership is open to any adult (18 or over), of any tradition, who is willing to work in an interfaith environment, respect traditions not their own, encourage each person to find the faith that moves them, and diligently seeks to create a world of harmony and justice. See any Trustee or the Treasurer to pay for dues if you are a first time member, as we will need to see you face-to-face at an event we hold. We are not a mail-order church.
Children are welcome to participate in any event with their parents or legal guardians, but are not voting members until adulthood. The cost for a child is $30.00 per year to be in the database, but they MUST have a signed statement from their parent or designated guardian to participate, and the parent or designated guardian must be present at the event.
Membership is self-selected. Membership induction is by actually showing up to an event and involving yourself in activities and being a part of the process. We are a task-oriented association, encouraging all of our groups to go to our many activities. The start of new groups are always encouraged. You don’t see what you want to be happening, make a proposal and bring it to a business meeting. We hold meetings twice a year (Annual in the Spring, Retreat in the Fall), so that people’s voices are heard. You don’t have skills, there are other people who can contribute, but without ideas and visions, nothing is accomplished.
MEMBERSHIP DUES will help you to be involved. To share in forum and connect to the wider world, we ask for annual dues from individuals or groups.
Our annual dues are $60.00, prorated every three months, child membership is $30.00. Please note that PayPal charges an administrative fee, so the pass-through charge is $3.00. You may mail a check to Ecumenicon Fellowship, 3205 Kimberly Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782 with no admin fee.
Please note that renewals are for a full year, not part years. Though one can pay a part year when one first joins, the intent is to support throughout the year, not simply a small amount. Clergy in good standing are expected to be paid members (either annual or lifetime). Ordination is for life, but licensure is annual and includes ongoing education.
Dues can be paid at any business meeting, Fellowship-sponsored event, or any event at which Ecumenicon Fellowship has an outreach table (such as Darkover, Sacred Space or other events) or through the PayPal link below. This way we associate a name with a face and the fact that you actually showed up. You can also download a Ecumenicon Membership Form [MS Word 26K] and mail it in with your payment or with your PayPal receipt number (for renewals only) to
Ecumenicon Fellowship
c/o Charles Butler
Ecumenicon Fellowship
3025 Kimberly Road
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Membership Dues via PayPal
Adult Annual Membership - $63.00 (January 1 - January 1)
Child Annual Membership - $33.00 (January 1 - January 1)
Adult 9-month Membership - $48.00 (April 1 - January 1)
9-month Child Membership - $25.50 (April 1 - January 1)
Adult 6-month Membership - $33.00 (June 1 - January 1)
Child 6-month Membership - $18.00 (June 1 - Jan 1)
Adult 3-month Membership - $18.00 (October 1 - January 1)
Child 3-month Membership - $12.50 (October 1 - January 1)
Lifetime Membership - $903
Lifetime membership should be considered only if you have been a part of the Fellowship for at least 5 years so that you have been a part of committees, helped to organize events, and are willing to ensure support over a lifetime of policy decisions.
PLANNING
Ecumenicon runs as an open forum communicating mostly through our Web site and our yahoogroups forum. If you wish to teach, learn, communicate, create, pursue a spiritual or nature-based activity which you believe others would enjoy, do not hesitate to contact the Trustees and other members with a brainstorm. If it is within our mission, we will try to find a way to support you. Activities that have a monetary cost, or that require a space rental will have to have a clear presentation so that we can best review it.
The Trustees communicate almost daily, and we have various groups meeting in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio meeting every week. Stay tuned.
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