Resolution Number: 1973-A117
Title: Appropriate Good Friday Offering for the Holy Land and the Middle East
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That the Executive Council be instructed to appropriate annually from the Good Friday Offering not less than $15,000 to the work of the Church in the Holy Land, and, from the remainder of the Good Friday Offering, not more than $30,000 for the work of the Orthodox and other Christian Churches in the Middle East and elsewhere; and if there be further remainder it is to be appropriated at the discretion of the Executive Council.

Resolved, That the Executive Council be instructed to show in its annual report the amount received from the Good Friday Offering and the expenditures made from it.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Louisville, 1973 (New York: General Convention, 1973), pp. 402-403.
  
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