The Acts of Convention

House of Deputies

The House of Deputies Committee on Evangelism presented its Report #5 on Resolution C008 (Episcopal Council of Indigenous Ministries Funding) and moved adoption with amendment.

Original Text of Resolution:

(C008)

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That The Episcopal Church of the United States of America in its 74th General Convention of The Episcopal Church, meeting in Minneapolis in July, 2003, reaffirm the 72nd General Convention's designation of the decade 1997–2007 as the "Decade of Remembrance, Recognition, and Reconciliation" during which each diocese will take such steps as necessary to fully recognize and welcome Native Peoples into congregational life, which will include a special effort toward developing an outreach partnership among urban Native Peoples; and be it further

Resolved, That the 74th General Convention of The Episcopal Church appropriate for the Episcopal Council of Indigenous Ministries $900,000 funding for the triennium, and with the responsibility for awarding grants for projects which seek to welcome Native Peoples into congregational life, providing leadership training programs for young adults and evangelism programs for youth, and that progress reports be presented at the 75th General Convention.

Committee Amendment:

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That The Episcopal Church of the United States of America in it's the 74th General Convention of The Episcopal Church, meeting in Minneapolis in July, 2003, reaffirm the 72nd General Convention's designation of the decade 1997–2007 as the "Decade of Remembrance, Recognition, and Reconciliation" during which each diocese will take such steps as necessary to fully recognize and welcome Native Peoples into congregational life, which will include a special effort toward developing an outreach partnership among urban Native Peoples; and be it further

Resolved, That the 74th General Convention of The Episcopal Church appropriate for the Episcopal Council of Indigenous Ministries $900,000 funding for the triennium, and with the responsibility for awarding grants for projects which seek to welcome Native Peoples into congregational life, providing leadership training programs for young adults and evangelism programs for youth, and that progress reports be presented at the 75th General Convention. request The Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget, and Finance to consider and adopt a budget allocation for Native American ministries, working with the Episcopal Council of Indigenous Ministries, of $1,500,000 funding for the triennium, for grants for projects which seek to welcome Native Peoples into congregational life, providing leadership training programs for young adults, evangelism programs for youth, and mission among urban and rural Native peoples; and that progress reports be presented at the 75th General Convention. This proposed funding allocation is in addition to proposed funding allocations as found in the Budget Proposal of the Presiding Bishop and the Executive Council to the 74th General Convention on pages 26 (Domestic Appropriations) and 30 (Ethnic Congregational Development—Native American Ministries).