On March 2, Bishop Gepert sent a letter to parishioners informing them that he was taking over the parish and disbanding its lay board. At that time, Gepert announced that Lawlor would be going on a four-month leave, but first Lawlor had been was ordered to downsize the church staff.

A good example of TEC's power of positive financial inducement is the much-ballyhooed "Listening Process" designed to "listen" to the voices of a small but aggrieved group of gays, lesbians and transgendered types. The Listening Process had its genesis in the person of former Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold and is funded wholly by The Episcopal Church. The few voices of ex-gays are politely "listened" to, but not seriously taken into account.

In their ministry they have seen people coming to faith that include the village drunk and powerful witch doctors. They believe that in order to marinate the spiritual soil prayer is the foundation to all evangelism. They practice what they call "lifestyle evangelism" having lived in a slum for nearly four years. Behind where they lived a Satanic cultic church could be found. It is still there.

In July, a decommissioning will take place, a sort of ecclesiastical funeral service for family and friends. The cathedral will then be dismantled and its parts, including a magnificent set of stained glass windows over the altar, sold off to the highest bidder.