Petition Text: 22123-LC-262.2-D

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Amend ¶ 262.2:

2. The work area chairperson of Church and society shall keep the Council on Ministries or Administrative Council or Council on Ministries aware of the need for study education and action in the areas of on social issues and education, service, witness, and action issues of social concern. In keeping with...the chairperson shall recommend to the Council on Ministries or Administrative Council or Council on Ministries study/action projects in the field of social concerns education, service, witness, action, and advocacy in support of the Church's position. The chairperson shall emphasize issues of social justice, including: health and wholeness, peace, environmental justice, rights of racial-ethnic persons, poverty and hunger, concerns of women and men, children and families. To facilitate and augment the work of the local congregation, as well as that of the conference and general boards, the chairperson is encouraged to participate in Church networks of action. The chairperson shall cooperate with other ministry work areas and commissions in surveying serving the needs of the local community...

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Petition Text: 22123-LC-262.2-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference