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Resolution Number: 1985-C056
Title: Request Strategies for Including Working People in the Church Leadership
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred As Substituted and Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 68th General Convention request the State of the Church Committee to:

  1. Assess the material reported to the 68th General Convention and subsequent studies on the realistic demographics of the Church and its impact on the Church's polity and ministry.
  2. Make recommendations during the triennium to the Executive Council on the strategies and plans which will facilitate the potential for leadership and ministry in all people, especially those whose working conditions limit their involvement, and which will assure their inclusion in local, diocesan, provincial and national structures of the Church.
  3. Report to the 69th General Convention on the plans and strategies recommended.
Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Anaheim, 1985 (New York: General Convention, 1986), p. 175.