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Resolution Number: 1991-D067
Title: Recognize and Report on the Pauperization of Women and Children
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred As Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 70th General Convention of the Episcopal Church recognize the seriousness of the national crisis of the increasing pauperization of women and children and:

  1. Call on parishes and dioceses to support ministries designed to provide opportunities for movement out of poverty and to assist those still in poverty;
  2. Request the Executive for Advocacy, Witness, and Justice, along with the Women in Mission and Ministry Office, to prepare a report for the Executive Council documenting the pauperization crisis, recommending appropriate public policy positions to be acted on by the Washington Office and also recommending programs and activities of advocacy and service which could be undertaken by parishes and dioceses to respond to the crisis;
  3. Request the Executive Council to report through church media and to the 71st General Convention their response to this resolution.
Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Phoenix, 1991 (New York: General Convention, 1992), p. 253.

Legislative History

Author:
Originating House: House of Deputies
Originating Committee: Committee on Social and Urban Affairs

House of Deputies

Original Text of Resolution:

(D067)

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the 70th General Convention of the Episcopal Church recognize the seriousness of the national crisis of the increasing pauperization of women and children; and

  1. Call on parishes and dioceses to support ministries designed to provide opportunities for movement out of poverty and to assist those still in poverty;
  2. Request the Executive for Witness, Peace and Justice, along with the Women in Mission and Ministry Office, to prepare a report for the Executive Council documenting the pauperization crisis, recommending appropriate public policy positions to be acted on by the Washington Office and also recommending programs and activities of advocacy and service which could be undertaken by parishes and dioceses to respond to the crisis;
  3. Request the Executive Council to report through church media and to the 71st General Convention their response to this resolution.

Proposed Committee Amendment:

In line 7, before "Witness," add the word "Advocacy" and delete the word "Peace."

Motion carried

Resolution adopted with amendment

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #56)

House of Bishops

The Committee on Social and Urban Affairs presented its Report #36 on House of Deputies Message #56 on Resolution D067a (Recognize and Address Pauperization of Women) and moved concurrence.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #203)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 17.

Abstract:   The 70th General Convention recognizes the seriousness of the pauperization of women and children. It calls on the Church to provide opportunities for and assistance to those in poverty. It requests a report documenting the pauperization crisis.