Court Order - Trustees of Calvary Methodist Church, Trustees of Calvary Methodist Church_5/23/1968n,,
�
CERTIFICATE AS TO CHAl1GE OF NAME
�
— %tca¢. certifies that he tia the-duly --
el cted, acting and qualzfied President of the Board of Trustees of
(�a�c�-Wc. Methodist Church of �ju,r�u��,,,,, ,
�i��� County, Indiana.
That on the �,,� day of Z968, at a meeting
of the members of said Church, more than ten (10) days' notice of the
time, place and purpose of said meeting having been given, the foZlowing
resolution r,�as duZy adopted by the members of said Church present and
voting:
WHEREAS, The Methodist Church and The Evangelical United Brethren
Church are being legally and ecclesiastically merged under the name
of The United Methodist Church, and
WHEREAS, Methodist Church of Pjwy.-�� ,,,,
State of Indiana, has be n a oca church of The Methodist C urc , and
by virtue of said merg r is to become a local church of The United
Methodist Church, by reasoii of which its legal name should 6e changed,
NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved by the members of said
Methodist Church, in meeting assembled, due notice of the time, ace
and purpose of said meeting having been given, that the n me of said
Church be, and the same hereby is, changed to
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, effective June l, 1968.
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the President of the Board of Trustees of this
— --- Church cause a proper record of! such change of name to be made in the
office of the Recorder of ,(�,�,.�„„ � County, Indiana, pursuant
to the terms of the statute in such case made and provided.
This certificate is executed pursuant to said resolution, and tin compliance
mith said statute,
And the underaigned further certifies that the church premises and the
�
- 2 -
�
parsonage premises held by th.e Board of Trustees of said churah and
situated in said Couniy, are held in trust:
a) that said church premises shaZl be used, kept and maintained
as a place of divine taorship of the United ldethodist Ministry and
members of the United Methodisi Church, and
b) that said parsonage premises shaZl be held, kept and maintained
as a pZace of residence for the use and occupancy of the ldinisters of
the United Methodist Church who may from time to time be entitled to
occupy the scm+e by appointment;
All sub,ject to the discipline, usage and ministerial appointments of
said church as from time to time authorized and declared by the General
Conference and by the Annual Conference raithin whose bounds the said
premises are situated.
Witness r,y hand tfiis � day of �%'� 1968.
�
/�.J�!' � �..2x�rLc=
President of the Board o �ustees
� hlethodist
Church
This instrument uxzs prepared by Francis M. Hughes, Attorney.