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,....
General Conference Webmaster: Susan Brumbaugh
PETS Creator: John Brawn
Petition Text: 20594-FA-906-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference