Common use of EXECUTION AND EFFECTIVE DATE Clause in Contracts

EXECUTION AND EFFECTIVE DATE. This Disaffiliation Agreement may be executed by the parties in identical counterparts and by manual, digital, or facsimile signature. Each executed counterpart of this Disaffiliation Agreement will be considered an original, and all executed counterparts, together, will constitute the same agreement. This Disaffiliation Agreement will become effective as of its date of execution when each party to this Disaffiliation Agreement has executed a counterpart of it. [Signatures on next page] SIGNATURE PAGE FOR DISAFFILIATION AGREEMENT IN WITNESS THEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above. [*LOCAL CHURCH] By: Name: President, Board of Trustees [*Local Church] By: Name: Vice President, Board of Trustees [*Local Church] PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH By: Name: District Superintendent [name of district] District of The Pacific Northwest Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH By: President Exhibit A Church Vote to Disaffiliate Certification The (“Local Church”) certifies that at least two-thirds (2/3) of its professing members present at a church conference of the membership on have voted to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church for reasons of conscience regarding a change in the requirements and provisions of the Book of Discipline related to the practice of homosexuality or the ordination or marriage of self-avowed practicing homosexuals as resolved and adopted by the 2019 General Conference.

EXECUTION AND EFFECTIVE DATE. This Disaffiliation Agreement may be executed by the parties in identical counterparts and by manual, digital, or facsimile signature. Each executed counterpart of this Disaffiliation Agreement will be considered an original, and all executed counterparts, together, will constitute the same agreement. This Disaffiliation Agreement will become effective as of its date of execution when each party to this Disaffiliation Agreement has executed a counterpart of it. [Signatures on next page] SIGNATURE PAGE FOR DISAFFILIATION AGREEMENT IN WITNESS THEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above. [*LOCAL CHURCH] By: Name: President, Board of Trustees [*Local Church] By: Name: Vice President, Board of Trustees [*Local Church] PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH By: Name: District Superintendent [name of district] District of The Pacific Northwest Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH By: President Certification Exhibit A Church Vote to Disaffiliate Certification The Tacoma Xxxxxxx UMC (“Local Church”) certifies that at least two-thirds (2/3) of its professing members present at a church conference of the membership on have voted to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church for reasons of conscience regarding a change in the requirements and provisions of the Book of Discipline related to the practice of homosexuality or the ordination or marriage of self-avowed practicing homosexuals as resolved and adopted by the 2019 General Conference.

EXECUTION AND EFFECTIVE DATE. This Disaffiliation Agreement may be executed by the parties in identical counterparts and by manual, digital, or facsimile signature. Each executed counterpart of this Disaffiliation Agreement will be considered an original, and all executed counterparts, together, will constitute the same agreement. This Disaffiliation Agreement will become effective as of its date of execution when each party to this Disaffiliation Agreement has executed a counterpart of it. [Signatures on next page] SIGNATURE PAGE FOR DISAFFILIATION AGREEMENT IN WITNESS THEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above. [*LOCAL CHURCH] By: Name: President, Board of Trustees [*Local Church] By: Name: Vice President, Board of Trustees [*Local Church] PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH By: Name: District Superintendent [name of district] District of The Pacific Northwest Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH By: President Certification Exhibit A Church Vote to Disaffiliate Certification The Federal Way: Sunrise UMC (“Local Church”) certifies that at least two-thirds (2/3) of its professing members present at a church conference of the membership on have voted to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church for reasons of conscience regarding a change in the requirements and provisions of the Book of Discipline related to the practice of homosexuality or the ordination or marriage of self-avowed practicing homosexuals as resolved and adopted by the 2019 General Conference.