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Resolution Number: 1997-A068
Title: Request a Domestic Missionary Strategy for Diverse Ethnic Groups
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Substituted
Final Text:

Resolved, That this 72nd General Convention give thanks for the creative and effective ministries in our Church which reach out across racial and cultural lines; and be it further

Resolved, That each diocese and province be requested to create and implement a domestic missionary strategy to reach out and embrace peoples diverse in ethnicity and not included in large numbers in the Episcopal Church; and be it further

Resolved, That the Evangelism Office at the Church Center be requested to support the diocesan and provincial planning efforts.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, 1997 (New York: General Convention, 1998), p. 618.