Petition Text: 20594-FA-906-D

Understanding Petition Numbers

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Amend ¶906:

Fiscal Responsibilities.--All moneys contributed by a local church to the World Service Fund general agencies, commissions, and funds, including World Service special gifts and Advance special gifts,....

1. It shall submit to each quadrennial session of the General Conference, for its action and determination, budgets of expense for its own operation; the World Service Fund funds for support of the general program agencies, commissions, and funds; the General Administration Fund, the Episcopal Fund,....

b) In the case of the World Service Fund funds for support of the general program agencies, commissions, and funds, the General Council on Finance and Administration and the General Council on Ministries Council of Bishops shall proceed...

(1) The General Council on Ministries Council of Bishops shall, in consultation with....

(2) The General Council on Finance and Administration shall then establish and communicate to the General Council on Ministries Council of Bishops the total sum proposed for distribution from the World Service Fund among support of each of the general program agencies, commissions, and funds.

(3) The General Council on Ministries Council of Bishops, after reviewing both the program priorities and the total funds available to each of the general program agencies, shall recommend to the General Council on Finance and Administration the amount of the annual World Service allocation to be allocated to each of those agencies, commissions, and funds, within the total sum proposed by the General Council on Finance and Administration for distribution among such agencies.

(4) Only when the General Council on Finance and Administration and the General Council on Ministries Council of Bishops agree on the allocations to the several general program agencies, commissions, and funds shall these allocations be included in the World Service budget program agency support budgets to be recommended...

(5) The General Council on Finance and Administration shall establish the total sum to be recommended to the General Conference for the annual budget of the World Service Fund support of the general program agencies, commissions, and funds.

(6) Before the beginning of each year the General Council on Finance and Administration shall determine and communicate to the General Council on Ministries Council of Bishops the sum available at that time from World Service contingency funds to meet requests for additional funding from the general program agencies. The General Council on Ministries Council of Bishops shall be authorized to approve allocations to the general program agencies for additional program funding up to the limit so established. No money shall be allocated by the General Council on Ministries Council of Bishops from this source...

(7) The General Council on Ministries Council of Bishops shall receive....

2.a) The World Service Fund support fund for each of the general program agencies, commissions, and funds, including World Service special gifts and Advance special gifts,....

3. To perform the accounting and reporting functions for the General Council on Ministries, the agencies accountable to it (¶803.5), the Council of Bishops and any administrative general agencies....

7. ...to take such action as is necessary to encourage United Methodists to provide for their continued participation in World Service, in support of one or more of the World Service general agencies,...

11. To make recommendations to the General Conference, in consultation with the General Council on Ministries and the Council of Bishops,....

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Petition Text: 20594-FA-906-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference