Others remain on the fence and have not made their decision yet on whether to stay or leave and still others just want everything to go back to normal so they can worship without all the disagreements.
"The status of minds and hearts on this topic is complex," Anderson told the crowd. "If order is to be made from this complexity, we have to know what we're dealing with here ... and we have to understand that as a community of Christ willing to move forward.
"Everyone must be committed to this work," Anderson insisted, warning that it was not going to get easy in the near future and that not everyone would get what they want.
Over the next several weeks, the remaining members will seek reconciliation within their diocese and seek renewed leadership in the hopes of continuing the mission of their diocese.
In a letter addressed to the gathering in Hanford, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said they would be working to "clarify the status" of clergy members in the Diocese of San Joaquin.
Earlier this month, the church's three senior bishops agreed to ban Schofield from practising his religious duties and certified him as having "abandoned the Communion" of the Church.
A final judgment for Schofield is expected at the House of Bishops meeting in March.
"Once the ultimate status of John-David Schofield is adjudicated by the House of Bishops, and if he is deposed, I will seek to gather the remaining members of the Diocese in a special convention to elect new leadership and make provision for an interim bishop," Jefferts Schori said in the letter to the remaining Episcopalians.
"I will work with diocesan leaders to clarify ownership of the personal and real assets of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin."
So far, three other full dioceses in the Episcopal Church have taken their first votes to secede over the liberal direction of the national Church and realign with conservative Anglican provinces overseas.
The Episcopal Church widened rifts when it consecrated its first openly gay bishop, V Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, in 2003.
The second and final votes in the three dioceses are expected later this year.
