Dear Chairman Board of Elders,. I am writing to withdraw my membership from Grace Community Church.This letter is my formal resignation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and it is effective immediately. I wish to bring to your attention a matter of personal significance- my decision to end my membership with our church. _____ Please withdraw my membership with the understanding that, at any time in the future, I may have my membership reinstated. _____ I now live in. Create and write an official letter to announce your departure from a church. Download finished copies as PDFs. Write a long, nasty, mean-spirited letter to explain everything that they dislike about the church and articulate their own self-pity at length. The procedure for removing a pastor depends on the church in question.