My employment with the Community of Christ was one of those very big exits that I had to plan for.  Because, not only had I done it once, but also because I was going to have to do it a second time.  I remember at a church field staff meeting in California about the church dying.  And I said that such didn’t have to happen.  Another missionary/seventy in the church said to me, “You are talking about closing churches.  I said “That is right – and you want to know why?  That is so we can come back from a position of strength and having found our way – which is simply this, each and every one of you is all according to the gifts of God unto  you – a dream given to me at age 19 while I attended University of Iowa.  A calling repeated to me by Evangelist Milton Broadfoot.  You keep upon the path you are on now, the Restoration Movement, this church, and it’s mission, will surely die.”  Apostle Susan Skoor then said to me, “You sound defensive.”  I said, “Susan, I am hardly that. Hear this -- If the church has no further need of me, then I am fine with that and I shall seek and pursue my own path in terms of the God and the Christ of my own understanding.  All I have to be told here or by you or anyone else here in attendance is that I am no longer needed and others have a more perfect understanding of the ways of God and of the Christ and that I should be on my way.  Just have the courage to say such things to my and I will be on my way.  Today, I am on the way of the Christ and the God who has bound my service to be which is acceptable to them.