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Resolution regarding 20/20 initiative

     Resolved, that Executive Council receive with enthusiasm and gratitude the 
Report of the 20/20 Task Force; and be it further

     Resolved, that Executive Council recommend that the Standing Commission on 
Domestic Mission and Evangelism be enlarged immediately in order to monitor and 
report this Church's participation in the 20/20 Movement; and be it further

     Resolved, that the Presiding Bishop and the President of the House of 
Deputies be asked to appoint up to ten new members to the Standing Commission on 
Domestic Mission and Evangelism in order to represent the fullness and diversity 
of the Episcopal Church and that these new appointees be women under the age of 
thirty and/or women representing racial, ethnic and sexual minorities; and be it 
further

     Resolved, that the Standing Commission on Domestic Mission and Evangelism be 
charged with the following:

     Gathering information and resources related to this Church's participation 
in the 20/20 movement

     Considering the best means of accomplishing the vision set forth in the 
20/20 Task Force Report

     Inviting all this Church's interim bodies and standing committees and 
commissions and the Church Center staff to consider their roles in relation to 
the 20/20 initiative and asking them to review their roles annually

     Helping this church expand our understanding of mission and evangelism to 
include social justice and work with marginalized persons and populations

     Reporting to each meeting of the Executive Council and to the General 
Convention;

     and be it further

     Resolved, that the approximately $50,000 remaining from the work of the 
20/20 Task Force be applied to the budget of the Standing Commission on Domestic 
Mission and Evangelism in order to accomplish this work during the remainder of 
this triennium.