CoGS roundup: Decrease in contributions prompts vote on 2021 contingency provision
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article42342
- Author
- Anglican Journal Staff
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 January
- Author
- Anglican Journal Staff
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 January
- Volume
- 146
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 2
- Notes
- "Diocesan contributions, which account for 87 % of General Synod's net revenue, have decreased by around 20 % over the past 25 years, Council of General Synod (CoGS) heard Nov. 9 [2019] during a budget presentation by General Synod treasurer Hanna Goschy. Following the presentation, CoGS voted to approve the 2020 budget and a contingency provision for the 2021 budget that would see $250,000 made available from the church's Ministry Investment Fund to balance that year's budget, if required".
- "In her first address as primate to CoGS, Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said one of the tasks she wanted the church to focus on in coming years was fighting racism". "She hoped, Nicholls said, the church would soon start work to deepen the commitment of the whole church to the 'Charter for Racial Justice in the Anglican Church of Canada'."
- "The next gathering of Sacred Circle ... will be held June 14-19 [2020] in Orillia, Ont., CoGS heard Nov. 8 [2019]. Sacred Circle -- the largest gathering of the Indigenous Anglican church -- is normally held every three years. It met most recently in August 2018, so the next meeting will come a year earlier than usual. But organizers felt that after the passing of a number of resolutions at General Synod last July [2019] formalizing the creation of a self-determining Indigenous church within the Anglican Church of Canada, they wanted to move as quickly as possible on 'putting some meat on the bones of what a self-determining Indigenous church will look like', [said] Canon Murray Still."
- "The Jubilee Commission has started the work needed to propose a 'just, sustainable and equitable funding base for the self-determining Indigenous Anglican church', CoGS heard Nov. 7 [2019]". Judith Moses, chair of the commission, "said the commission has been given a number of tasks, including examination of historic and current funds made available to Indigenous ministry; assessment of funds that are designated to Indigenous programming; and consideration of questions of property and divestment on financing the future of the Indigenous church". "Moses summarized her comments by saying the group sees 'a vibrant Indigenous church as really integral, central to the strategic goals of the larger church. This isn't about parallel churches. This isn't about overlapping churches. This is about Indigenous goals being at the core of who we are as a church'."
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. Council of General Synod - Meetings
- Anglican Church of Canada - Finance
- Budget - Anglican Church of Canada
- Goschy, Hanna
- Anglican Church of Canada. Ministry Investment Fund
- Church giving - Anglican Church of Canada - Statistics
- Nicholls, Linda (Linda Carol), 1954-
- Racism - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Sacred Circle
- Anglican Church of Canada. Sacred Circle (10th : 2020 : Orillia, Ont.)
- Anglican Church of Canada. Jubilee Commission
- Indigenous Anglican Church
- Indigenous Anglican Church - Finance
- Moses, Judith
- Still, Murray (Murray Leslie)