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Mission Coordination Committee begins its work

Endorses recommendation to end Mission Partnership Funds in 2013

> July 5, 2010

> GA219 Communication Center

> by Jim Nedelka

> MINNEAPOLIS

The 219th General Assembly (2010) Mission Coordination Committee began its work 
on Monday by tackling the first of several funding items.

By a 43-10 vote, the committee endorsed a recommendation from the General 
Assembly Mission Council (GAMC) to end on Dec. 31, 2013, the practice of 
Mission Partnership Funds ? monies distributed by the General Assembly to 
synods for redistribution to presbyteries.

The committee also unanimously defeated an overture from Sierra Blanca 
Presbytery that would distribute undesignated funds from the Presbyterian 
Foundation directly to individual presbyteries.

In reviewing a proposed extension of the Advocacy Committee for Racial Ethnic 
Concerns (ACREC), the committee voted 32-18-0 to send a revised motion to the 
assemly, which deletes a proposed study group and brings a recommendation to 
the 220th General Assembly (2012).