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03-July-1996 
 
GA96075 
 
 
    P.H.E.W.A. recommendations coming on Saturday 
 
ALBUQUERQUE - On Saturday, July 6, the Assembly is scheduled to hear 
recommendations from the Assembly committee on Mission Priorities and 
Budgets regarding a report and overtures related to the Presbyterian 
Health, Education and Welfare Association. 
 
     The committee's response to the report (33.027) on P.H.E.W.A., which 
was conducted by the National Ministries Division as mandated by the 207th 
General Assembly, is to recommend approval of the report with these 
recommendations added to it:  (1) that P.H.E.W.A. finances and accounting 
be subject to the same accounting standards of all the entities of the 
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).  and (2) that the General Assembly Council 
through the National Ministries Division review the memorandum of 
understanding to consider revisions that will address the concerns of 
inclusiveness and political advocacy and the financial implications 
involved. 
 
     The committee is recommending disapproval of overture 96-75, which 
asks for funding of P.H.E.W.A. to be discontinued.  In response to overture 
96-99, having heard stories about the "great things God is doing in the 
ministries of the various networks of P.H.E.W.A." the committee is asking 
that Moderator John Buchanan appoint a committee to address the concerns 
about P.H.E.W.A. expressed in the overture "to create a vehicle which can 
multiply the opportunities for additional network ministries." 
 
 
Jane Hines 

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