Full Legislative History
Resolution Number: 2012-A133
Title: Fund Theological Training for Indigenous Peoples
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 77th General Convention requests the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance to consider a minimum budget allocation of $142,000 for each year of the triennium for a minimum of $426,000 for support of the theological training for Native leaders in the Episcopal Church—those called to lay and ordained leadership at the following institutions: Niobrara School for Ministry, Hooghan Learning Circle, North Dakota School for Ministry, David Salmon School for Ministry, Father Paul Mather School for Ministry of the Diocese of Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and the Navajoland Area Mission, and the Indigenous Theological Training Institute, as well as Indigenous training for Province IX and other areas under the Episcopal Church’s jurisdiction. Funding is to be under direction and supervision of the Office of Indigenous Ministry of the Episcopal Church.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, 2012 (New York: General Convention, 2012), p. 210.