The exodus from the Episcopal Church continued last week as leaders of another Colorado congregation prepared to split with the increasingly liberal denomination.<\/p>\n
The Rev. Charles Reeder is scheduled to preach his last sermon today as rector of the Church of the Holy Comforter here. Then, “Father Chuck” and the church’s leadership \u201d\u201d including the 10-member vestry and youth ministers \u201d\u201d plan to join the growing number of traditional Episcopalians fleeing the embattled denomination.<\/p>\n
In this case, the trigger was money. Donations have dropped precipitously since 2003, when the church consecrated its first openly homosexual bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, and agreed to perform same-sex blessings.<\/p>\n
John Bosio, Holy Comforter’s senior warden, said the 49-year-old parish is now basically insolvent.<\/p>\n