2016 Wesleyan Discipline: Letters: Recommendation to other denominations

590. When any member requests a letter of recommendation to some other denomination, the pastor and local church secretary shall grant it on the proper form provided in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:6030, if the member is neither under discipline nor under charges. Such a person’s membership in the local church granting the letter shall cease immediately, and the secretary shall enter opposite the member’s name, the date and Withdrawn by letter of recommendation. 6030. Letter Given to Person Desiring to Transfer to Another Denomination (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:590).

This certifies that ____________, the bearer, has been up to this date an acceptable member of the _______________ Wesleyan Church, and being desirous of removing from said church, is hereby released and cordially recommended to the Christian confidence of those to whom this certificate may be presented. By authority and in behalf of the ______________ Wesleyan Church, this ______ day of __________, A.D. ________.

________________________ Pastor ________________________ Local Church Secretary

(It is understood that this letter of recommendation terminates the bearer’s membership in The Wesleyan Church immediately.)