Resolution Number: 2012-A129
Title: Increase Aid for Ministry with Native Peoples
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 77th General Convention request the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget & Finance to consider increasing by 20% the base budget support awarded at the 76th General Convention to each of the four "aided dioceses" (South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, Navajoland) for ministry with Native Peoples for the 2013–2015 triennial budget.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, 2012 (New York: General Convention, 2012), pp. 182-183.

Legislative History

Author: Executive Council: Committee on Indigenous Ministries
Originating House: House of Deputies
Originating Committee: Committee on National and International Concerns

House of Deputies

The House of Deputies Committee on National and International Concerns presented its Report #4 on Resolution A129 (Increase Aid for Ministry with Native Peoples) and moved adoption.

Original Text of Resolution

(A129)

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the 77th General Convention request the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget & Finance to consider increasing by 20% the base budget support awarded at the 76th General Convention to each of the four "aided dioceses" (South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, Navajoland) for ministry with Native Peoples for the 2013–2015 triennial budget.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #51)

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on National and International Concerns presented its Report #5 on HD Message #51 on Resolution A129 (Increase Aid for Ministry with Native Peoples) and moved concurrence.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message # 129)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 9.

Report Reference:   Executive Council: Committee on Indigenous Ministries, Reports to the 77th General Convention, 2012, pp. 608-611.
Abstract:   The 77th General Convention requests a budget increase for four dioceses with Native Peoples ministry.