Faith and Practice
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Part III: Friends Practices
Chapter 1—Membership
Section 3—Affiliate Membership
This membership should be used with discretion, reviewed annually, and be limited to three years.
In situations where persons who are not Friends or who are Friends temporarily located are actively interested and engaged in the work of a meeting, such may be admitted to affiliate membership without severing their relations with another denomination or the home meeting. Non-Friends shall subscribe to the Basic Beliefs of Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting as stated in this Faith and Practice.
Affiliate members recognize and fulfill the obligation of regular attendance in the services, active moral support of the church and its work, and liberal giving toward its financial program. They may hold offices in the meeting, except those of pastor or trustee, subject to the discretion of the local meeting. Children of such members may become affiliate members also, or at the request or by the consent of their parents, may become associate members of the meeting. All affiliate members are given certificates indicating their relationship to the meeting and the rights pertaining thereto. (See sample form, Certificate of Affiliate Membership in the Friends Church.) They may be received into full membership when they so desire as described in section 1 - Active Membership.
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