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.