We are officially a church. (Huzzah, yeay, and all that.) All it takes to officially be a church is to declare it so. We are a nonprofit org with full protected status, because that is the default state of churches.
Remember: Church laws in the U.S. were made with frontier churches in mind. Those were "here's us 9 families living in the same valley, and every Sunday morning, we trek over to Mister Dobb's house, and he leads us in a bible study session. That's our church." No paperwork required.
Fifthtrinity is no closer to getting official paperwork, and I am now much conflicted about whether I want to. Official paperwork seems to involve incorporating, which I Do Not Wish To Do, in part because we are not a business. Other paperwork would be filing papers with the IRS; that's waiting for, oh, a few hours of playing with phrasing, and someone with legalese comprehension to check for loopholes.
If you're interested in helping with websitish stuff, email me at elfwreck at gmail dawt com; I have a few bits I'd like to put in it, and more that I can imagine but can't begin to code. I have thots of an online Erisian Priestly Training Program, but only the fuzziest of ideas how to implement it. (I would maybe like to set up Official Classes, even, with software like Moodle, except that I can't even experiment with such things on my own--dialup internet is not friendly to even simple web design.)
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We are officially a church. (Huzzah, yeay, and all that.) All it takes to officially be a church is to declare it so. We are a nonprofit org with full protected status, because that is the default state of churches.
Remember: Church laws in the U.S. were made with frontier churches in mind. Those were "here's us 9 families living in the same valley, and every Sunday morning, we trek over to Mister Dobb's house, and he leads us in a bible study session. That's our church." No paperwork required.
Fifthtrinity is no closer to getting official paperwork, and I am now much conflicted about whether I want to. Official paperwork seems to involve incorporating, which I Do Not Wish To Do, in part because we are not a business. Other paperwork would be filing papers with the IRS; that's waiting for, oh, a few hours of playing with phrasing, and someone with legalese comprehension to check for loopholes.
If you're interested in helping with websitish stuff, email me at elfwreck at gmail dawt com; I have a few bits I'd like to put in it, and more that I can imagine but can't begin to code. I have thots of an online Erisian Priestly Training Program, but only the fuzziest of ideas how to implement it. (I would maybe like to set up Official Classes, even, with software like Moodle, except that I can't even experiment with such things on my own--dialup internet is not friendly to even simple web design.)