Bishop Peter James Lee
Diocese of Virginia
11 0 West Franklin Street
Richmond, Virginia 23220

October 4, 2005

Dear Bishop Lee,

We greet you with affection as your brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ. We are deeply grateful that you are successfully recovering from your surgery. This is an answer to our prayers, which we wil continue to offer on your behalf. After our Rector spoke with you following that surgery, he told us of your desire to meet with us, which we warmly reciprocate. Our fervent hope is for a full relationship, healed of the injuries caused by the developments at and after General Convention 2003. To that end, we as a Vestry ask for the opportunity to meet with you sometime between now and Thanksgiving. One of us wil telephone your office in a few days to
see whether we can schedule a meeting.

We write today, and we ask to meet with you, in order to appeal to you once again on the subject of the errors of the Episcopal Church's General Convention in 2003, in which you had a part. That Convention approved the consecration of an avowed, practicing homosexual as a bishop of the Church. And, at your own suggestion, the Convention acknowledged that blessings of same-sex unions are taking place "within the bounds of our common life."