Resolution Number: 2003-D009
Title: Support 2008 Anglican Gathering
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 74th General Convention enthusiastically support and affirm the call of the Anglican Consultative Council meetings XI (Scotland 1999) and XII (Hong Kong 2002), and of the Joint Standing Committee of the Primates and Anglican Consultative Council, that there be an Anglican congress of lay people, priests, deacons, and bishops from every diocese in the Anglican Communion described as the "Anglican Gathering" and tentatively planned to be held in South Africa in mid-2008; and be it further

Resolved, That every diocese of The Episcopal Church begin to plan and make financial provisions for representation at the 2008 Anglican Gathering; and be it further

Resolved, That the Standing Commission on World Mission work cooperatively with the Executive Council and the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance to prepare during the next triennium a financial provision for the 75th General Convention to support the 2008 Anglican Gathering; and be it further

Resolved, That the department of Anglican and Global Relations at the Episcopal Church Center, working in consultation with the Standing Commission on World Mission, be directed to assist the wider Anglican Communion in every way possible in the development of the 2008 Anglican Gathering; and be it further

Resolved, That the Presiding Bishop communicate The Episcopal Church's enthusiastic support for the 2008 Anglican Gathering to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Primates of the Anglican Communion; and be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of the General Convention, along with The Episcopal Church's members of the Anglican Consultative Council, communicate the substance of this resolution to the General Secretary of the Anglican Communion, the Anglican Consultative Council, and the staff and leadership of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, 2003 (New York: General Convention, 2004), p. 611.

Legislative History

Author: The Rev. Dr. Ian T. Douglas (Massachusetts)
Originating House: House of Bishops
Originating Committee: Committee on World Mission

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on World Mission presented its Report #3 on Resolution D009 (Support 2008 Anglican Gathering) and moved adoption.

Original Text of Resolution:

(D009)

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 74th General Convention enthusiastically support and affirm the call of the Anglican Consultative Council meetings XI (Scotland 1999) and XII (Hong Kong 2002), and of the Joint Standing Committee of the Primates and Anglican Consultative Council, that there be an Anglican congress of lay people, priests, deacons, and bishops from every diocese in the Anglican Communion described as the "Anglican Gathering" and tentatively planned to be held in South Africa in mid-2008; and be it further

Resolved, That every diocese of The Episcopal Church begin to plan and make financial provisions for representation at the 2008 Anglican Gathering; and be it further

Resolved, That the Standing Commission on World Mission work cooperatively with the Executive Council and the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance to prepare during the next triennium a financial provision for the 75th General Convention to support the 2008 Anglican Gathering; and be it further

Resolved, That the department of Anglican and Global Relations at the Episcopal Church Center, working in consultation with the Standing Commission on World Mission, be directed to assist the wider Anglican Communion in every way possible in the development of the 2008 Anglican Gathering; and be it further

Resolved, That the Presiding Bishop communicate The Episcopal Church's enthusiastic support for the 2008 Anglican Gathering to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Primates of the Anglican Communion; and be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of the General Convention, along with The Episcopal Church's members of the Anglican Consultative Council, communicate the substance of this resolution to the General Secretary of the Anglican Communion, the Anglican Consultative Council, and the staff and leadership of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #101)

House of Deputies

The House of Deputies Committee on World Mission presented its Report #3 on HB Message #101 on Resolution D009 (Support 2008 Anglican Gathering) and moved concurrence.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #220)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, August 7.

Abstract:   The 74th General Convention supports the planning and development of the 2008 "Anglican Gathering".