Just got back from the information meeting with the Heritage Presbytery Judicial Committee Commission over our recent complaints.

The summary is that they denied our first complaint and upheld our second complaint against our Session. Sarah and I are very pleased at the outcome, and based on what the Presbytery commissioners said, the first complaint really wasn’t valid since the Session hadn’t been following proper procedure anyway. In other words, had the first meeting been properly ordered, then they should have been able to exclude Simon and Mike.

I’ll be updating this post with scans from the document, so you can see the exact wording. More importantly, the commission acknowledged their responsiblity as brothers in Christ, and have offered themselves to help reconcile differences between our family, the Session, and anyone else still involved.

UPDATE: Here’s the document of the affirmed complaint from the Presbytery Commission (page 1, 2).