Summary of Strategies November 2000 We urge you to find allies and to organize; then to develop prayer support and a presbytery-wide master plan to get out your friendly or potential partners. We urge you to negotiate a fair presbytery debate and voting process, to enlist the presence and support of your likeliest allies: laity and pastors in your smallest churches (under 125 members), in racial/ethnic churches, and in very large congregations. Carefully comb the lists of honorably retired pastors for probable allies. Develop written resources and distribute these prudently; make multiple personal visits and phone calls to strengthen your supporters and to win your fair share of the “shadow voters.” Raise modest amounts of money. Hold rallies, if these will help you. Get out the vote from those churches which never send commissioners and carpool commissioners. Be realistic about your chances, but never give up without an effort, remembering that the whole PCUSA family will be looking not only at how your presbytery votes but also by how much. One increased percentage point over previous voting effort will send a major message to the entire denomination that the trend in your area is moving toward Biblical morality, as historically understood! May God bless all your efforts, as you stand for truth, always in love and in an irenic spirit, remembering that all who oppose us are our Christian siblings and are prospects who may yet be persuaded to join us in our understanding of Gods truth!

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