| Resolution Number: | 1982-A108 |
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| Title: | Urge Seminaries to Provide Resource Persons on Small Churches |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred As Amended |
| Final Text: | |
Resolved, That this General Convention urge each Seminary to identify an interested faculty member to be a resource person in small church life and ministry; and be it further
Resolved, That the Executive Council provide, if possible, an extra-budgetary source from which grants may be made available to assist Seminaries in the training and preparation of these resource persons; and be it further
Resolved, That this Convention urge appropriate diocesan and regional groups to explore the use of Seminaries as resources for small congregations.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, New Orleans, 1982 (New York: General Convention, 1983), p. C-98. |
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Legislative History
| Author: | The Standing Commission on the Church in Small Communities |
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| Originating House: | House of Bishops |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Small Communities |
House of Bishops
Original Text of Resolution:
(A108)
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, that this General Convention urge each Seminary to identify an interested faculty member to be a resource person in small church life and ministry; and be it further
Resolved, that the Executive Council provide a source from which grants may be made available to assist Seminaries in the training and preparation of these resource persons; and be it further
Resolved, that this Convention urge appropriate diocesan and regional groups to explore the use of Seminaries as resources for small congregations.
Proposed Committee Amendment:
In the second Resolve, after the word "provide," insert a comma and the words "if possible, an extra-budgetary source from which grants may be made to assist seminaries in the training and preparation of these resource persons; and be it further Resolved...."
The Committee moved the adoption of Resolution A-108A (Resources, small communities).
Seconded by Bishop Cox.
Motion carried
(Communicated to House of Deputies in HB Message #150)
House of Deputies
On the ninth day, the Chairman of the Committee on Small Communities presented Report #14 and recommended that the House concur with Message #150 of the House of Bishops on Resolution A-108A (Seminaries/Small Communities).
Motion carried
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #189)
Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, September 13.
| Report Reference: | Standing Commission on the Church in Small Communities, Reports to the 67th General Convention, 1982, pp. 299-307. |
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| Abstract: | The 67th General Convention urges use of seminaries as a resource for small church life and ministry. |