step nine: Get official

After your group has at least four people who think of themselves as members and who can be counted on, who are ready to "sign their names on the dotted line," let us know so we can make it official. Naturally, getting registered is not essential -- this is fellowship, not paperwork -- but it establishes an official date. If your group decides to try to become a mission station (the first step toward becoming a parish), it can do so a year and a day after registering as a Connexion.

More info: Registered Connexions have a representative at meetings of the Holy Synod in the person of the Coordinator of the Connexion Project. In addition to changed priorities and more responsibilities, mission stations have a clergy person and can have a vote in Holy Synod.