OBLATES

What is an Oblate?

• An Oblate is a special friend of Household Keppeler, a Dominant or submissive, age 18 or older, who is associated with our Household.
• An Oblate is someone who favors and agrees with the experience of community that we are seeking to build, someone who subscribes to the Household Keppeler core values of "Obedience * Submission * Stability" for which Household Keppeler strives, but also someone who, for any of a number of reasons, is not able to join us directly (or chooses not to do so), and thus cannot be a serving member of the Household.
• An Oblate may also be someone who, by association with a member of Household Keppeler through an organization, personal communication, or personal experience, has made a positive impact on that Household member's quest for the core values of "Obedience * Submission * Stability."
• An Oblate is a person who is expected to strive for good relations with all members, Dominant and/or submissive, of Household Keppeler.
• An Oblate is a person to whom we hold a special closeness and one who is a local ambassador of our Household in his or her particular community and/or space.
• An Oblate is a person who adopts the tenets of our life to the extent that status outside our Household allows.

What does an Oblate do?

• An Oblate makes a loose affiliation with our Household by annually subscribing to our vision.
• An Oblate commits to pursue our quest for the spiritual values of leather and BDSM and to service within the leather community.
• An Oblate represents our Household in places we cannot be and to people whom we may not have met.
• An Oblate reports to the Household at least twice a year on his progress in his/her spiritual journey and of some aspect of service to the leather community.

What does an Oblate receive in return?

• The Oblate will receive a sense of belonging by being affiliated with our Household.
• We offer the Oblate our hospitality for visits as is feasible for the Household.
• We make ourselves available to the Oblate for friendship and for some degree of counsel and advice as is beneficial and available within Household Keppeler.
• Household Keppeler will present the Oblate with a formal Certificate of Oblation, suitable for framing, as an acknowledgment that he or she is an Oblate member of our Household.
• The Oblate may, if chosen, be featured in the Oblates' Gallery, our website page of Oblate pictures and links.

So what then must I do to become an Oblate?

If you feel that the relationship of Oblate to Household Keppeler may be right for you at this time, then please send us email, including your snail-mail address, telling Household Keppeler that you would like to be considered for Oblate status, petitioning for an Oblate application.  After you have received your application for Oblate status in Household Keppeler by return snail-mail, please return it by the time indicated on the application.

The application should provide Household Keppeler with a brief descriptive and biographical statement about yourself and about your interest and experience in the leather and Dominant/submissive life, a statement about your spiritual life and/or spiritual journey, and what things you may have done, are doing or could be doing to benefit the leather community.  Also included will be a statement of some special service you could provide to Household Keppeler to further the Household core values of "Obedience * Submission * Stability."  A picture, if available, would also be appreciated for use in our webpage's Oblate Gallery, if give permission, and/or a special area in our home.

Household Keppeler will review your application and, if you and your goals seem to fit well with Household goals and vision, we will send you official notice of welcome as an Oblate, encouraging you to schedule a visit to our Household to receive your Certificate of Oblation, or, if a personal visit is not feasible, we will send you your Certificate.  Prospective Oblates should understand that acceptance of their candidacy is determined by Master Alex, as Head of Household, with the advice of the Household Council of Full Members.

It should also be noted that submissives currently in service to a Dominant will not be considered as Oblates without the prior candidacy and acceptance of their Dominant as an Oblate of the Household.  This directive is important as to respect a given Dominant's full knowledge and direction of the activities of his/her submissives in service.

It should also be noted that there is no financial obligation in regard to candidacy or membership as an Oblate of Household Keppeler with the exception that we would gladly accept a donation, as you are able, to cover food expenses should you visit for more than one meal in our home.

Household Keppeler is waiting for you.
Will you join our vision?

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