Decision Number 424

Decision

The previous adoption by the 1976 General Conference of a resolution recommending that, except for highly unusual circumstances, it refrain from establishing study commissions, etc., to do work already assigned to the general agencies, did not prevent the 1976 General Conference from subsequently authorizing establishment of a Quadrennial Study Committee on Native American Ministries.

The General Council on Ministries was not authorized by that action (Calendar Item 527, pages 477-8 1976 DCA, partially printed in the 1976 Discipline as Par. 2201) to select the members Of the Committee. The Committee is not amenable to the Council but is to report directly to the General Conference. In the absence of any other provision for election of the Committee members, the Council of Bishops has power to select them.

TOM MATHENY, President

HOOVER RUPERT, Secretary