The Acts of Convention
| Resolution Number: | 1982-A151 |
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| Title: | Adopt a Policy for Long-range Planning |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred |
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Resolved, That this 67th General Convention adopt as the basic policy for long-range planning throughout the Episcopal Church the following:
A FRAMEWORK FOR PLANNING
BY AND FOR THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
The mission of the Church is to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ. The Church pursues its mission as it prays and worships, proclaims the Gospel, and promotes justice, peace, and love. The Church carries out its mission through the ministry of all of its members. (Catechism) The mission and work of the Church are done whenever two or three are gathered together (a congregation) through: service, evangelism, pastoral care and worship.
Planning is done cooperatively, in a local community, by a congregation with other congregations and ecumenical groups in the community.
Planning is done cooperatively, by a diocese, with its congregations and with ecumenical units through the bishop and council as coordinating agencies with the diocesan Convention.
Planning is done cooperatively, by province or region, with its dioceses and with ecumenical bodies through the President and Board with the synod or other coalition body.
Planning is done cooperatively, in the national Church, by the Executive Council, with the Presiding Bishop (Church Center staff) and General Convention interim bodies, and through our official representatives to the Anglican Partners-in-Mission Consultation, the Anglican Consultative Council, the World Council of Churches and other international ecumenical groups of which we are members--in anticipation that independent organizations of the Church will do the same.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, New Orleans, 1982 (New York: General Convention, 1983), p. C-67. |
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Legislative History
| Author: | The Executive Council |
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| Originating House: | House of Bishops |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Structure |
House of Bishops
Original Text of Resolution:
(A151)
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That this 67th General Convention adopt as the basic policy for long-range planning throughout the Episcopal Church the following:
A FRAMEWORK FOR PLANNING
BY AND FOR THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
The mission of the Church is to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ. The Church pursues its mission as it prays and worships, proclaims the Gospel, and promotes justice, peace, and love. The Church carries out its mission through the ministry of all of its members. (Catechism) The mission and work of the Church are done whenever two or three are gathered together (a congregation) through: service, evangelism, pastoral care and worship.
Planning is done cooperatively, in a local community, by a congregation with other congregations and ecumenical groups in the community.
Planning is done cooperatively, by a diocese, with its congregations and with ecumenical units through the bishop and council as coordinating agencies with the diocesan Convention.
Planning is done cooperatively, by province or region, with its dioceses and with ecumenical bodies through the President and Board with the synod or other coalition body.
Planning is done cooperatively, in the national Church, by the Executive Council, with the Presiding Bishop (Church Center staff) and General Convention interim bodies, and through our official representatives to the Anglican Partners-in-Mission Consultation, the Anglican Consultative Council, the World Council of Churches and other international ecumenical groups of which we are members--in anticipation that independent organizations of the Church will do the same.
The Committee moved the adoption of Resolution A-151.
Seconded by the Bishop of Delaware.
Motion carried
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #72)
House of Deputies
On the ninth day, the Chairman of the Committee on Structure presented Report #21 and recommended that the House concur with Message #72 of the House of Bishops on Resolution A-151 (Long-range Planning).
Motion carried
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #174)
Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, September 13.
| Report Reference: | Executive Council, Reports to the 67th General Convention, 1982, pp. 83-93. |
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| Abstract: | The 67th General Convention adopts a policy for long-range planning at all levels of Church life. |