Decision Number 1146

Decision

The General Conference has set forth very specific and detailed processes by which annual conferences are to determine and set their budgets, including the portion of their budgets that involves general Church apportionments. Upon receiving a statement of the amount that is apportioned to the Annual Conference for the several general funds authorized by the General Conference, the annual conference Council on Finance and Administration shall apportion the full amount to the districts, charges, or churches by whatever method the annual conference may direct, but without reduction. The budget as adopted by the Indiana Conference undermines those processes and is in conflict with ¶ 615 of the 2008 Discipline and with Decision 1054. The decision of law by the bishop is reversed.