| Resolution Number: | 1988-A164 |
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| Title: | Affirm the Tithe As the Standard of Giving and Signify by Signatures |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred As Amended |
| Final Text: | |
Resolved, That we the members of this 69th General Convention of The Episcopal Church affirm the tithe as the minimum standard of giving for Episcopalians; and be it further
Resolved, That we the deputies and bishops of this Convention do hereby affirm through our signatures that we are tithing, or that we have adopted or will adopt a plan to tithe within the next three years; and be it further
Resolved, That we do call all members of the Church to join us in accepting the tithe as the minimum standard of Christian giving; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Convention be directed to prepare and distribute signatory pages for bishops and deputies of each diocese signifying their commitment to the tithe as the minimum standard of giving; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary [of the Convention] be directed to collect the signatures with this resolution and publish the list of signatures in the Journal.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Detroit, 1988 (New York: General Convention, 1989), p. 208. |
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Legislative History
| Author: | |
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| Originating House: | House of Deputies |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Stewardship and Development |
House of Deputies
Original Text of Resolution:
(A164)
Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the members of this Convention affirm the tithe as the minimum standard of giving for Episcopalians; and be it further
Resolved, That we the deputies and bishops of this Convention do hereby affirm that we are tithing, or that we have adopted a plan to within the next three years; and be it further
Resolved, That we do call all members of the Church to join us in accepting the tithe as the minimum standard of Christian giving.
Proposed Committee Amendment:
Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That we the members of this 69th General Convention of the Episcopal Church affirm the tithe as the minimum standard of giving for Episcopalians; and be it further
Resolved, That we the deputies and bishops of this Convention do hereby affirm through our signatures that we are tithing, or that we have adopted, or will adopt, a plan to tithe within the next three years; and be it further
Resolved, That we do call all members of the Church to join us in accepting the tithe as the minimum standard of Christian giving; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Convention be directed to prepare and distribute signatory pages for bishops and deputies of each diocese signifying their Commitment to the tithe as the minimum standard of giving; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Convention be directed to collect the signatures with this resolution and publish the list of signatories in the Journal.
Deputy Jones of Central New York moved an amendment.
Proposed Amendment:
In the fifth Resolved: retain the words "and publish the list of signatories" but delete "in the Journal."
The question was called.
Motion carried
Debate terminated
A vote was taken on the Jones amendment.
Amendment defeated
Deputy Cederholm of Vermont moved an amendment.
Proposed Amendment:
State that "some of the membership have chosen not to sign, not because of disagreement with the resolution but rather for personal reasons."
The question on the Cederholm amendment was called.
Motion carried
Debate terminated
A vote was taken on the Cederholm amendment.
Amendment defeated
The question on the Resolution was called.
Motion carried
Debate terminated
A vote was taken on the Resolution as amended.
Motion carried
Resolution adopted with amendment
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #82)
AFFIRMATION OF RESOLUTION A164a
| ALABAMA | ||||
| Harold B. Nicrosi | Laurence A. Gibson | |||
| Marcus B. Robertson | Charles H. Patton | |||
| Jeanne Johnston | Maria B. Campbell | |||
| Walter L. Elam III | John W. Cruse | |||
| ALASKA | ||||
| Eric E. Wahlforth | Mark A. Boesser | |||
| D. Rebecca Snow | Anna Frank | |||
| Bessie C. Titus | Charles H. Eddy | |||
| ALBANY | ||||
| David Kavalage | George Silvernell | |||
| C. B. King | Claire M. Stahler | |||
| Peter K. Simpson | Thomas T. Parke | |||
| ARIZONA | ||||
| David E. Pettingill | Matthew K. Chew | |||
| Ralph E. Hutton | Gordon Packard | |||
| Margaret A. Babcock | Elizabeth A. Cole | |||
| David E. Bailey | Charles H. Smith | |||
| ARKANSAS | ||||
| Mark A. Linder | Larsen M. Anderson | |||
| James R. McJean, Jr. | Kenneth E. Bailey | |||
| Bert Parke | Edward J. Holt | |||
| ATLANTA | ||||
| Robert H. Johnson | David B. Collins | |||
| Herschel R. Atkinson | R. P. M. Bowden, Sr. | |||
| Edward L. Warner | Willard R. Fey | |||
| James Knox Yeary | ||||
| BETHLEHEM | ||||
| Richard I. Cluett | Marvin W. Bray | |||
| Elizabeth W. Myers | Margaret B. Chamberlain | |||
| Jane B. Teter | Everett W. Francis | |||
| Joe S. Falzone | Janet G. Charney | |||
| John E. Feather | ||||
| CALIFORNIA | ||||
| Dennis Delman | Victor Wei | |||
| Nancy Axell | Fran Toy | |||
| Marion Cedarblade | Dan R. Forbes | |||
| Virgil A. Renton | Dorothy R. Curry | |||
| Holly McAlpen | Roswell O. Moore | |||
| Donald A. Seaton | Hobert M. Banks | |||
| William Rontani | Mary Louise Gotthold | |||
| CENTRAL FLORIDA | ||||
| Thomas R. Bates, M.D. | Thomas A. Downs | |||
| George C. Dannals | A. Robert Rizner | |||
| Marvin D. Kelly | Carole Ross | |||
| Richard Bowman | August Sorvillo | |||
| CENTRAL GULF COAST | ||||
| Vincent Currie, Jr. | Van B. Davis | |||
| S. Albert Kennington | Phillip O. Drane | |||
| J. Douglas Stirling | Mann S. Valentine VI | |||
| Midge Bennett | Marie T. Caffey | |||
| CENTRAL NEW YORK | ||||
| Charles L. Grover III | James A. Corl | |||
| Robert F. Atkins, Jr. | Eleanor M. Hillers | |||
| M. Janet Berberian | Wallace A. Frey | |||
| Mary Lou Crowley | Hugh R. Jones | |||
| CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA | ||||
| William A. Robinson | Hugh B. Urban | |||
| Betty R. Carroll | Richard L. McCandless | |||
| Mary Stevenson | Paul C. Doneker | |||
| John S. McDowell | Peter A. Greenfield | |||
| CENTRAL PHILIPPINES | ||||
| Marion Lardizabal | Alejandro G. Abad | |||
| Ursula B. Daoey | Kate C. Botengan | |||
| Frances Daytec | Joel Pachao | |||
| CHICAGO | ||||
| Edwain A. Norris, Jr. | Robert A. Krogman | |||
| Raymond E. Cole, Jr. | David N. Harris | |||
| Nancy Wabshaw | Newland F. Smith, III | |||
| Barbara Larsen | Robert H. Robinson | |||
| Marion G. Mailey | Beverley P. Giegler | |||
| Carol Harper | Helen R. White | |||
| Grant M. Gallup | ||||
| COLORADO | ||||
| Charles Christopher | Gerald C. Anderson | |||
| C. Bergeson | Blanche Zembouer | |||
| Robert A. Buck | Robert Lynn Alexander | |||
| John Rohde | Donald S. McPhail | |||
| Kay Harlan | Daniel Hopkins | |||
| John L. Carson III | ||||
| CONNECTICUT | ||||
| Joan W. Bray | Jean H. Moffit | |||
| Edwin G. Hebb, Jr. | Kenneth A. Wood, Jr. | |||
| Richard L. Schuster | James R. Crowder | |||
| Ann S. Coburn | Malcolm Mc. Dowell | |||
| A. T. Mollegen, Jr. | ||||
| CONVOCATION OF AMERICAN CHURCHES IN EUROPE | ||||
| Henry H. Wilson | Edward P. Todd | |||
| Wayne O. Erdmann | Maude Jacopuzzi | |||
| James R. Leo | Samuel H. Hartman | |||
| DALLAS | ||||
| Carolyn (Cris) Fouse | Stephen Weston | |||
| Dixie S. Hutchinson | Paul W. Eggars | |||
| Richard J. Petranek | Wesley T. Nelson | |||
| Richard W. Phillips | ||||
| DELAWARE | ||||
| Robert Wm. Duncan, Jr. | ||||
| DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | ||||
| William J. Skilton | Ruth Melo | |||
| EAST CAROLINA | ||||
| A. C. Marble, Jr. | J. Clarence Leary, Jr. | |||
| Joseph W. Cooper | Charles L. Garrett, M.D. | |||
| Richard W. Warner, Jr. | Alice W. Lynch | |||
| Robert D. Cook | Ruth H. Woodley | |||
| James R. Boyd | W. T. Gartman, Jr. | |||
| EAST TENNESSEE | ||||
| Robert G. Tharp | E. K. Magrath, Jr. | |||
| David R. Hatchett | James D. Curtis | |||
| Don Johnson | ||||
| EASTERN OREGON | ||||
| A. Dale Brandt | Harriett L. Burton | |||
| Daniel W. Gardner | Louise Gerlach | |||
| Richard H. Thew | Douglas S. Pollock | |||
| Kathy J. Thew | Robert R. Carey | |||
| EASTON | ||||
| Mark C. Sullivan | Anne L. Labat | |||
| Edward E. Godden | Henry J. Jordan | |||
| John B. Birdsall | John S. DiPietro | |||
| James A. Fisher | James J. Shand | |||
| Michael K. Bloxham | Richard W. Daspit | |||
| EAU CLAIRE | ||||
| Janet M. Connell | Ralph J. Stanwise | |||
| Donna L. Vierbicher | John B. Weeth | |||
| Donald N. Chase | Karl E. Bell | |||
| Gary Green | John E. Rasmus | |||
| Robert Tiling | ||||
| EL CAMINO REAL | ||||
| Lawrence K. Mikkelsen | Edgar H. Markham | |||
| Bavi Rivera Moore | William K. Young | |||
| Roy W. Strasburger | Suzanne M. Taylor | |||
| Emily Baxter | David J. Jones | |||
| Mary R. Bishop | Ann P. McElroy | |||
| FLORIDA | ||||
| Gustave J. Weltsek, Jr. | Robert K. Riley | |||
| Francis I. duPont | W. Robert Abstein | |||
| Susan Carmichael | Barnum McCarty | |||
| James R. Auman | Walter T. Saffran | |||
| FOND DU LAC | ||||
| Robert J. C. Brown | Phoebe Pettingell | |||
| James H. Dolan | Thomas Hunt | |||
| Arthur K. D. Kephart | Blanche Powless | |||
| William M. Johnston | M. Marilyn Crawford | |||
| John J. Phillips | ||||
| FORT WORTH | ||||
| B. W. Coggin | Billie R. Boyd | |||
| Charles A. Hough | Robert M. Randolph | |||
| R. D. Perry | Walter Virden III | |||
| Judy R. Mayo | Mary Anne Wilkirson | |||
| GEORGIA | ||||
| Neal Phelps | Gordon J. Panton | |||
| John L. Jenkins | Anne Beebe | |||
| Charles H. Hay | William C. Eager III | |||
| Henry I. Louttit, Jr. | Jules Victor, Jr. | |||
| HAWAII | ||||
| W.Edwin Bonsey, Jr. | Richard H. Hagemeyer | |||
| Arthur K. Kusumoto | S. Elaine Funayama | |||
| Hollinshead T. Knight | Lynette Golderman Shaefer | |||
| George S. Lockwood | David Yasuhide Ota | |||
| IDAHO | ||||
| James H. Davis | Edwina Aker | |||
| Don L. Robinson | Carrol Keller | |||
| Roland N. Smith | Jean K. Swartling | |||
| George E. Alvarez | Joan LaLiberte | |||
| INDIANAPOLIS | ||||
| David I. Shoulders | Katherine Tyler-Scott | |||
| Nancy Rayfield | Scott E. Evenbeck | |||
| Nan A. Peete | Hugh C. Laughlin | |||
| Richard Roos | Nancy C. Mackey | |||
| James B. Lemler | ||||
| IOWA | ||||
| Robert E. Holzhammer | Burns H. Davison II | |||
| S. Suzanne Peterson | Henry M. Walker | |||
| William H. Morley | Miriam J. Ingram | |||
| Arthur P. Becker | Charles E. Hawtray | |||
| J. Michael Engels | ||||
| KANSAS | ||||
| R.W. McCandless | Robert W. Harvey | |||
| June Mendenhall | Allen Wiechert | |||
| Frank Connizzo | B. Shepard Crim | |||
| Thomas E. Punzo | Jacqueline J. Snyder | |||
| David F. With | Jesse Milan | |||
| Charles E. Neale | ||||
| KENTUCKY | ||||
| H. Howard Surface, Jr. | Anne Carter Mahaffey | |||
| J. Raymond Lord | E. Moray Peoples, Jr. | |||
| George Casparian | Whitney O' Bannon | |||
| John M. Hines | Martha Blair Harrison | |||
| LEXINGTON | ||||
| Christopher B. Platt | John G. Allen | |||
| Bruce W. Boss | George Gawthrop | |||
| Mary Ann Weiss | John D. McCann | |||
| Carolyn C. Ware | Clifford A. H. Pike | |||
| LONG ISLAND | ||||
| Robert C. Royce | Vincent A. Nardiello, Jr. | |||
| Jane Strunsky Wood | Herbert Thompson, Jr. | |||
| Domenic K. Cianella | Cecil David Williams | |||
| Robert V. Wilshire | Kenneth W. Miller | |||
| Muriel W. Sobers | ||||
| LOS ANGELES | ||||
| Warner R. Traynham | Ellen Murasaki | |||
| Gethin B. Hughes | Betty Connelly | |||
| John A. Fricker | Elizabeth Habecker | |||
| Gary Commins | William Rodiger | |||
| LOUISIANA | ||||
| William C. Morris, Jr. | Lillian Robinson | |||
| Susan S. Gaumer | W. Gedge Gayle, Jr. | |||
| Pete H. Rhymes | John A. Lawrence | |||
| John R. Williams | Jervis O. Burns | |||
| James M. Coleman | ||||
| MAINE | ||||
| Stephen W. Foote | Harold H. Brown | |||
| David D. Holroyd | Charity Waymouth | |||
| John C. Beaven | Mary Nash Flagg | |||
| Roger S. Smith | Joel C. Martin | |||
| MARYLAND | ||||
| Phebe Coe | Calhoun Bond | |||
| Philip B. Roulette | Carl N. Edwards | |||
| Jerome D. Brastow | Robert P. Patterson | |||
| John J. King | ||||
| MASSACHUSETTS | ||||
| Jurgen Liias | Marshall W. Hunt | |||
| Donald E. Burke | Titus Presler | |||
| Margaret B. Gunness | Sylvia N. Slayton | |||
| Byron Rushing | Nancy Jeanne Martin | |||
| Barbara MacDougall | M. Jeanne Sproat | |||
| MICHIGAN | ||||
| Timothy D. Wittlinger | Sally T. Head | |||
| A. Raymond Babin | John W. Bennett | |||
| Almus M. Thorp, Jr. | Bertram Nelson Herlong | |||
| MILWAUKEE | ||||
| Russell E. Jacobus | Evelyn L. Seaver | |||
| Peter Arvedson | Richard A. Crane | |||
| William W. Wiedrich | William G. Murphey | |||
| Bryce E. Hunt | Constance K. Ott | |||
| John M.Schroeder | ||||
| MINNESOTA | ||||
| George H. Martin | James A. Newman | |||
| Judy Hoover | Philip Allen | |||
| Erma J. Vizenor | Mary Hassell | |||
| Terry Roberts | Elaine Johnson | |||
| MISSISSIPPI | ||||
| Colton M. Smith | Suanna Smith | |||
| Lowell E. Grisham | David S. Luckett | |||
| Ruth W. Black | Joe G. Burnett | |||
| Lee Davis Thames | George R. Rea | |||
| MISSOURI | ||||
| Susan C. Skinner | David K. Fly | |||
| George H. Quarterman | Lance Williams | |||
| James P. Fallis, Jr. | Margery N. Gantt | |||
| Roland W. Jones | Nancy G. Moore | |||
| MONTANA | ||||
| Edwin C. Speare | Gus. W. Salbador | |||
| Donald Mackay | Vernon E. Sylvester | |||
| Ken Dunham | Carolyn S. Keil | |||
| Thad Butcher | ||||
| NEBRASKA | ||||
| James E. Krotz | John Paige Bartholomew | |||
| Ronald L. Wiley | Luis Uzueta | |||
| Nancy G. Westerfield | Susan J. Miles | |||
| Judith Amber | Thomas M. Davies | |||
| NEVADA | ||||
| Josephine Borgeson | J. Michael Garrison | |||
| Mary English | John Yoder | |||
| Lawrence Kirk | Paul M. Chalk | |||
| Samuel H. Caldwell | ||||
| NEW HAMPSHIRE | ||||
| Clare Fischer-Davies | G. Richard Siener | |||
| Barbara Carbonneau | Douglas M. Black | |||
| NEW JERSEY | ||||
| George J. Willis, Jr. | Ronald G. Albury | |||
| W. Perry Winterrowd | Virginia M. Sheay | |||
| Gerrie Dressler | Haskell Rhett | |||
| Donald M. Sykes, Jr. | ||||
| NEW YORK | ||||
| Michael Kendall | Joyce Phillips Austin | |||
| Joel E.A. Novey | Diane B. Pollard | |||
| George Zabriskie II | Harry W. Havemeyer | |||
| Thomas F. Pike | George Browne | |||
| NEWARK | ||||
| Emil Joseph Piel | Richard L. Shimpfky | |||
| Dillard Robinson | Michael F. Rehill | |||
| Audrey M. King | Elizabeth G. Maxwell | |||
| Marjorie L. Christie | Nancy H. Wittig | |||
| Annette Jecker | James W. H. Sell | |||
| NICARAGUA | ||||
| H.E. Wilson | Antonia Gomez | |||
| NORTH CAROLINA | ||||
| Robert L. Sessum | Neff Powell | |||
| E. Dudley Colhoun, Jr. | Huntington Williams, Jr. | |||
| Scott T. Evans | Jane Ruffin House | |||
| Anne B. Tomlinson | ||||
| NORTH DAKOTA | ||||
| Sandra Holmberg | John R. Baird | |||
| Dennis Tippett | Sandra Holbrook | |||
| Innocent Goodhouse | Frank H. Clark | |||
| D. Michael Riisager | Dorothy L. Travis | |||
| NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | ||||
| Harry Allagree | Robert F. Gaines | |||
| Kent S. McNair | Nancy W. Andrews | |||
| Dorothy S. Blackmore | Stephen M. Carpenter | |||
| L. Miles Snyder | Mary L. Goshert | |||
| NORTHERN INDIANA | ||||
| Robert Bizzaro | James A. Pankow | |||
| Anne Donnelly | Harold L. Comer | |||
| David L. Hyndman | Leroy M. Lacey | |||
| H. Roy Thompson | John Blakslee | |||
| Nancy L. Moody | Chester L. Williams | |||
| NORTHERN LUZON | ||||
| Ignacio Soliba | Gabriel Baluloan | |||
| Allen Aligo | Pablo Wangdali | |||
| NORTHERN MEXICO | ||||
| John E. Hayes | Marcelino Rivera | |||
| Miguel Hernandez | ||||
| NORTHERN MICHIGAN | ||||
| Richard M. Graybill | Steven E. Powers | |||
| William Hyry | Philip J. Nancarrow | |||
| Ellen M. Burgess | Carol S. Hosler | |||
| Charles E. Piper | Thomas E. Lippart | |||
| NORTHERN PHILIPPINES | ||||
| Thomas Ambucay | Alexander Wandag | |||
| Edward Malecdan | John L. Botengan, Sr. | |||
| Norman Fagsao | Sofia O. Bacwaden | |||
| NORTHWEST TEXAS | ||||
| Betty Gilmore | James P. Haney | |||
| Valerie Pickett | C. E. McIntyre III | |||
| Albert Brann | Jackie Batjer | |||
| Robert Carr Vincent | Robert B. Hedges | |||
| Harold Clinehens, Jr. | David L. Veal | |||
| NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA | ||||
| John W. Kline | M. Barbara Akin | |||
| Dennis A. Blauser | Terry W. Russell | |||
| W. R. Burrows III | Mary G. Swarts | |||
| OHIO | ||||
| Loren McClanahan | Ernest S. DuRoss | |||
| Patricia B. Kilpatrick | Jess J. Petty, Jr. | |||
| Sterling Newell, Jr. | Harry V. Nevels | |||
| Paul A. Frank, Jr. | Patricia Selwood | |||
| OKLAHOMA | ||||
| George H. Back | Robert F. Birbeas | |||
| Kenneth L. Armstrong | Macolm Deisenroth, Jr. | |||
| C. Dewitt Boyce | Glennes T. Clifford | |||
| Robert H. Fellows | Marylyn Adams | |||
| C. Wallis Ohl | ||||
| OLYMPIA | ||||
| Patrick A. Tomter | James F. Church | |||
| Robert L. Christie | Joyce McConnell | |||
| Stephen J. Gehrig | Roy D. Green | |||
| Kenneth M. Snyder | John P. Lambert | |||
| Mary S. Drew | Mel Matteson | |||
| OREGON | ||||
| Jerry A. Lamb | Ann G. Brown | |||
| E.R. Hall | Dorothea J. Pinch | |||
| Virginia P. Finch | Sallie E. Shippen | |||
| Theodore A. Berthold | ||||
| PANAMA | ||||
| Ellen H.M. Chandler | Dennis N. Josiah | |||
| Maiziee Lennan | Victor A. Scantlebury | |||
| Clarence W. Hayes | ||||
| PENNSYLVANIA | ||||
| Janice M. Duncan | John H. Lewis, Jr. | |||
| Arthur H. Criddle | Charles L. L. Poindexter | |||
| William J. Fischler | James A. Trimble | |||
| Ruth Fiesel | Wilfred F. Penny | |||
| PITTSBURGH | ||||
| Keith L. Ackerman | Lawrence M. Knapp | |||
| John H. Rodgers, Jr. | Ira C. Houck, Jr. | |||
| David P. Jones | Rebecca C. Spanos | |||
| George Werner | Lucretia Mottley | |||
| QUINCY | ||||
| Bernard G. Templin | Laurence Larson | |||
| Robert V. Fairman | Gus L. Franklin | |||
| James C. Emerson | Patricia N. Eddy | |||
| RHODE ISLAND | ||||
| James P. Frink | Gordon J. Stenning | |||
| Franklyn T. Cook | W. R. McClintick | |||
| Dorothy E. Belden | Marsue Harris | |||
| Hebert W. Bolles | Arthur F. Olsen | |||
| John H. Slavin, Jr. | H. M. Gordon, Jr. | |||
| RIO GRANDE | ||||
| Bradford J. Pretti | Bruce T. Brown | |||
| Edmond L. Baley, Jr. | Arthur J. Bevins | |||
| Fred J. Kuellmer | Norman Alexandre | |||
| Edwin Nettleton | Virginia A. MacCallum | |||
| Ronald Reed Thomson | Barbara G. Strome | |||
| Kesley Edmo, Jr. | ||||
| ROCHESTER | ||||
| James B. Prichard | Janet Farnsworth | |||
| Stephen T. Lane | R. M. Wainwright | |||
| Moses Gilbert | Stanley M. Topping | |||
| Miriam E. Owens | W. Richard Hamlin | |||
| SAN DIEGO | ||||
| Richard B. Harms | Patricia Howse | |||
| Richard C. Lief | Barbara P. Bright | |||
| Wayne F. Sanders | Gloria C. Roetter | |||
| James E. Carroll | John W. Witt | |||
| SAN JOAQUIN | ||||
| John D. Spear | Thomas M. Foster | |||
| David C. Chambers | Ronald Swanson | |||
| Donald D. Cole | Raquel J. R. Andres | |||
| Nancy T. Salmon | F. Corby Dale | |||
| SOUTH CAROLINA | ||||
| Richard I. H. Belser | R. S. McKenzie, Sr. | |||
| Arthur H. Lachicotte, Jr. | Michael T. Malone | |||
| Thomas Kirkland, Jr. | John C. Buchanan | |||
| John C. Wilson | Nancy A. Price | |||
| Morris J. Lent, Jr. | ||||
| SOUTH DAKOTA | ||||
| Robert J. Maule | Robert Two Bulls | |||
| John B. Davis | James R. Gundrum | |||
| Betty L. Furois | Marjorie D. Gross | |||
| SOUTHEAST FLORIDA | ||||
| Donald A. MacDonald, Jr. | Donald W. Krickbaum | |||
| Lorraine L. Tenerelli | Frederick J. Masterman | |||
| N. Vaughn M. Owen | G. Kerry Robb | |||
| Richard E. Miller | Ralph R. Warren, Jr. | |||
| Richard Marquess-Barry | ||||
| SOUTHERN OHIO | ||||
| Anne W. Robbins | Robert D. Gerhard | |||
| Albert B. Bishop | Samuel M. Allen | |||
| Barbara Schlachter | Terry A. Meadows | |||
| Robert Appel | Sallie Bailey | |||
| SOUTHERN VIRGINIA | ||||
| Rodney L. Caulkins | William M. Todd | |||
| Susan B. Bowman | Robert V. Lee, Jr. | |||
| George Estes | Randolph C. Charles | |||
| John H. Emmert | Barbara S. Grice | |||
| Cromwell C. Douglas | Joseph M. Green | |||
| Mary Larson Davis | ||||
| SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | ||||
| Herbert E. Beck | Joan Kline | |||
| Jack L. Iker | Paul Game, Jr. | |||
| Grayson B. Garvin | Juanita G. Harris | |||
| Richard A. Pollard | Roger D. Schwenke | |||
| Philip M. Duncan II | John D. Kley | |||
| Reid D. Farrell | ||||
| SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES | ||||
| Amando Bansigan | Dolores A. Laconico | |||
| SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA | ||||
| Elsa H. Hale | Louis C. Fischer III | |||
| Patricia Robinson | Michael K. Thompson | |||
| John A. Furgerson | Frances C. Tatem | |||
| Frances C. Marshall | Nancy R. Taylor | |||
| Dennis G. Case | Edmund Pendleton, Jr. | |||
| SPOKANE | ||||
| Hugh C. Duncan | Frank Storey | |||
| Robert A. Hasseries | Wallace A. Rehberg | |||
| Caryl Marsh | George T. Shields | |||
| Mark K. Craft | Thomas Robison | |||
| SPRIGFIELD | ||||
| W. N. Malottke | David F. Heneghan | |||
| Marilyn Belleville | Alan A. Herbst | |||
| Richard A. Pugliese | ||||
| TENNESSEE | ||||
| Richard C. Britton, Jr. | Lucy L. Shetters | |||
| Phebe C. Hethcock | Frank C. Hightower | |||
| John Lane Denson III | James G. Stranch III | |||
| Douglas A. Baxter | Mary Jane Levitch | |||
| Kathryn A. Hinton | George Reynolds | |||
| Paul B. Roberts | ||||
| TEXAS | ||||
| J. Pittman McGehee | Ralph Spence | |||
| R. Randolph Cooper | Mary Lou Hall | |||
| Laurens A. Hall | Sheldon H. Crocker | |||
| Rayford B. High, Jr. | Albert R. Rodriguez | |||
| UTAH | ||||
| William Maxwell | Rita Foust | |||
| Peter Chase | Elizabeth M. Dalaba | |||
| Kenneth W. Green | Francis L. Winder | |||
| Betty P. Janich | Lee Shaw | |||
| UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA | ||||
| Sarah G. McCrory | George I. Chassey | |||
| Bill Walsh | Frederick C. Byrd | |||
| Patricia Duncan | Jeanne C. Kean | |||
| James L. Haynes | J. Philip Purser | |||
| John E. Banks, Jr. | Philip H. Whitehead | |||
| VERMONT | ||||
| Ernest W. Gibson III | Molly Stata Comeau | |||
| Allan R. Arbuckle | Robert W. Anderson | |||
| VIRGIN ISLANDS | ||||
| Judith Ann H. Gardine | Basil B. Blake | |||
| Marlene Evans | Liston A. Garfield | |||
| A. Hoskins Huggins | Lionel S. Rymer | |||
| Cyril C. Harrigan | Ivan Heyliger | |||
| VIRGINIA | ||||
| Janet L. Maguire | William H. Brake, Jr. | |||
| Russell V. Palmore, Jr. | John A. M. Guernsey | |||
| William A. Johnston | Mark S. Anschutz | |||
| J. P. Causey, Jr. | William A. Guthrie | |||
| David Colin Jones | ||||
| WASHINGTON | ||||
| Edgar D. Romig | Pamela P. Chinnis | |||
| Iris E. Harris | Grace V. Dillingham | |||
| David S. Pollock | Marion W. Henry | |||
| David Booth Beers | Francis H. Wade | |||
| Anne D. Monahan | ||||
| WEST MISSOURI | ||||
| J. Earl Cavanaugh | Cynthia H. Schwab | |||
| John H. McCann | Ruth G. Lewis | |||
| Bruce D. Rahtjen | Margie L. Tucker | |||
| Robert Hutcherson | Keith Whitmore | |||
| Carl Chinnery | Stephen C. Higinbotham | |||
| WEST TENNESSEE | ||||
| Frank M. Cooper | Jane A. Clarke | |||
| Reynolds S. Cheney II | Charles M. Crump | |||
| Douglass M. Bailey | Robert G. Certain | |||
| WEST TEXAS | ||||
| A. Russel Matthews | Carl Eugene Jennings | |||
| Edmund L. Dohoney | Sam Todd, Jr. | |||
| Ralph E. Haines, Jr. | Emma Lou Lovell | |||
| Marilyn B. Price | ||||
| WEST VIRGINIA | ||||
| Kenneth L. Price, Jr. | Ruth T. Foose | |||
| T. Scott Allen | George Strader-Duncan | |||
| William J. Pugliese | Arthur L. Bennett III | |||
| James L. Johnson | James E. Waggoner, Jr. | |||
| WESTERN KANSAS | ||||
| Dennis R. Gilhousen | Jeffrey L. Bullock | |||
| Ben E. Helmer | Richard C. Fitch | |||
| Jeanette C. Young | Floyd L. Fairleigh | |||
| Linda S. Boone | ||||
| WESTERN LOUISIANA | ||||
| W. Craig Morgan | R. Thad Andress | |||
| Robert J. Hargrove | Susan Hardtner | |||
| Robert K. Cooper | Betty Hutchison | |||
| S. Ross Jones | Kenneth W. Robertson, Sr. | |||
| David Greer | Charles Dana Krutz | |||
| Janet M. Morgan | ||||
| WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS | ||||
| Nancy L. Lawton | Daniel S. Weir | |||
| Clyde H. Cox, Jr. | Peter T. Elvin | |||
| Mary H. Chiles | John H. Goewey | |||
| John H. Farquharson | William H. Coyne | |||
| WESTERN MICHIGAN | ||||
| D. Edward Emenheiser | Charles Luley | |||
| Jane P. May | Karen Graves | |||
| William C. Hamm | Mark D. Story | |||
| Joe Reynolds | R. Edward Kuhn | |||
| Joseph Neiman | Robert A. Addison | |||
| WESTERN NEW YORK | ||||
| Charles W. Whitmore | Barbara J. Northan | |||
| Albert S. Sam | Edwin L. Neville | |||
| Nathaniel W. Massey | Kevin M. Doherty | |||
| Elton O. Smith, Jr. | M. Richard Mabee | |||
| Danford A. Lavis | ||||
| WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA | ||||
| Cornelius A. Zabriskie | Alfred N. Salley | |||
| Barbara Mann | Thomas C. Daily | |||
| Bradford Rockwood | Lawrence Thompson | |||
| William G. Edwards | ||||
| WYOMING | ||||
| Warren Murphy | Bob Swope | |||
| Joseph Harte, Jr. | Ann K. Fontaine |
House of Bishops
The Committee on Stewardship and Development presented its Report #4 on House of Deputies Message #82 on Resolution A164a (Tithe as the Standard of Giving) and moved concurrence.
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #209)
One hundred thirty-six Bishops signed the Resolution and their signatures are on record in the office of the House of Deputies.
Those Bishops signing the Resolution are as follows:
C. Charles Vache
Adrian D. Caceres
John Shelby Spong
Robert H. Cochrane
H. Irving Mayson
Richard A. Abellon
James D. Warner
William A. Jones, Jr.
Gerald N. McAllister
Duncan M. Gray, Jr.
Edward W. Jones
Robert M. Wolterstorff
C. Brinkley Morton
Donald J. Davis
G. P. Mellick Belshaw
William G. Weinhauer
Brother John-Charles, S.S.F.
Robert P. Atkinson
Herbert D. Edmondson
Quintin E. Primo
James B. Brown
- Heath Light
Joseph T. Heistand
Calvin O. Schofield, Jr.
C. Shannon Mallory
Leigh A. Wallace, Jr.
Frank H. Vest. Jr.
John L. Thompson
Alexander D. Stewart
G. Edward Haynsworth
Robert F. Gibson
David K. Leighton
Lyman C. Ogilby
William C. Frey
Joseph Meakin Harte
John H. Burt
Jose G. Saucedo
William Davidson
David S. Rose
Scott Field Bailey
Cornelius Wilson
Walter C. Righter
William H. Folwell
Lemuel B. Shirley
- Donald Davies
William C. R. Sheridan
J. H. Ottley
Sturdie Downs
H. W. Shipps
Frank T. Griswold
Robert L. O. Longid
Rogers S. Harris
James R. Moodey
Oliver B. Garvey, Jr.
Charles I. Jones
W. Frank Carr
Allen L. Bartlett
George Reynolds
Narciso V. Ticobay
David E. Johnson
Robert O. Miller
Robert L. Ladehoff
Stewart C. Zabriskie
Edward H. MacBurney
Leopold Frade
Earl N. McArthur
Donis Dean Patterson
German Martinez-Marquez
Elliot L. Sorge
E. Don Taylor
Alex D. Dickson
Frank K. Allan
Daniel L. Swenson
Cabell Tennis
David C. Bowman
Ronald H. Haines
Arthur B. Williams, Jr.
Clarence N. Coleridge
Vincent King Pettit
Herbert A. Donovan, Jr.
Clarence C. Pope, Jr.
John M. Krumm
Don A. Wimberly
Luc Garnier
Edward C. Chalfant
Arthur A. Vogel
Roger J. White
H. Coleman McGehee
Craig B. Anderson
Otis Charles
Peter James Lee
Bob G. Jones
William G. Burrill
Robert M. Anderson
Andrew F. Wissemann
Charles J. Child, Jr.
David S. Ball
Alden M. Hathaway
David H. Lewis, Jr.
Henry B. Hucles
Harold A. Hopkins, Jr.
Bradford Hastings
Robert W. Estill
Donald M. Hulstrand
Claro Huerta-Ramos
David B. Birney
George N. Hunt
Thomas K. Ray
Rustin R. Kimsey
Gordon T. Charlton
William L. Stevens
William G. Black
- Theodore Eastman
Arthur E. Walmsley
Francis C. Gray
B. Sidney Sanders
William C. Wantland
Walter D. Dennis
Charlie F. McNutt
William A. Beckham
Sam B. Hulsey
William E. Swing
William H. Wolfrum
Mark Dyer
Charles F. Duvall
Robert M. Moody
O'Kelley Whitaker
John Chien
John F. Ashby
Frederick H. Borsch
Richard F. Grein
Orris George Walker, Jr.
George C. Harris
William E. Sanders
Donald P. Hart
Maurice M. Benitez
Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 7.
| Report Reference: | Standing Commission on Stewardship and Development, Reports to the 69th General Convention, 1988, pp. 390-400. |
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| Abstract: | The 69th General Convention affirms the tithe as the minimum standard of giving for Episcopalians and each bishop and deputy pledges to tithe or to work towards tithing. |