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84 MINUTES OF THE 1997 SYNOD OF THE The changes in the relationship between the RPCNA Synod, the Presbytery, and the Japanese congregations are requiring adjustment. Many of the difficulties now being encountered and reflected in Paper 97-10 are adjustment difficulties to the new relationship between the FMB and the Japan Presbytery. RECOMMENDATIONS OF SYNOD'S COMMITTEE Your committee has attempted to isolate the key issues underlying the present concerns expressed in the Petition of the Japan Presbytery. The following recommendations are offered in hope of alleviating the Presbytery's concerns, and providing the Presbytery and the FMB with a workable framework for carrying out the work of the Synod in Japan. Your committee is not trying to do the work of the FMB or the Japan Presbytery. I. We recommend to the Japan Presbytery and the FMB a slower pace of transition. We would therefore respectfully recommend the re-establishment of the Mission's Account on the field with English speaking administrators. 2. In conformity with the 1995 commitments of the FMB (Minutes of Synod, 1995, p. 56, Japan Presbytery Report to the 1997 Synod, p. 740), we recommend the continuing of the Call for two ordained men to serve under the oversight of the Japan Presbytery. These men should be trained in the Japanese language and when called should anticipate serving in Japan for a considerable period. Period of service will be determined by the Presbytery and FMB in consultation (see recommendations 6 and 7 below). 3. We recommend that Gene Spear be permitted to remain in the short term as a missionary in Japan to minister where the Japan Presbytery determines he can best be used. 4. We recommend that the Synod encourage the relationship between KTH and RPTS in accordance with the attached agreement. We also recommend to KTH and RPTS that teachers from RPTS and other qualified persons, be scheduled specifically to teach at KTH for the next five years, D.V. If this year's pattern continues, as many as two visiting professors per year may go to teach at KTH from RPTS. 5. We recommend the following statement of relationship between the Synod of the RPCNA and the Japan Presbytery: Synod rejoices that the Japan Presbytery and the Board of Foreign Missions of the Synod of the RPCNA are bound together in Jesus Christ, each earnestly desiring the firm establishment and full maturity of the Japan Presbytery. Each should therefore regard the other as a true partner in every significant decision concerning strategic planning, missionary staffing and delineation of financial responsibility. Synod, however, recognizes the Presbytery as having primary responsibility and spiritual authority, with the Board supplying "Counsel, Encouragement, Resources, and Training". The Presbytery and the Board should ensure that all important communications are made in writing, Presbytery to Board, and Board to Presbytery. Presbytery and Board should endeavor, wherever
REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NORTH AMERICA 85 possible, as they communicate, to come to united decisions; and if, on any m of significance, they are unable to come to united understanding, they should together submit that issue to the next meeting of Synod for resolution. This statement of relationshipis expressed with full confidence in our Lord that, in due time, the Presbytery will in every way be firmly established and the Board's work in Japan will be completed. 6. We recommend that Synod direct the FMB and the Japan Presbytery to draw up an agreement for the implementation of their relationship, this agreement to be reviewed from time to time. It would be most important for this agreement to include such things as the delineation of the functions of missionaries and the respective financial responsibilities of the Presbytery and the FMB. 7. We recommend that a delegate from the Japan Presbytery be present at future meetings of the RPCNA Synod. 8. We recommend that Pastor Takiura translate into Japanese this Committee's report for other elders of the Japan Presbytery. Respectfully submitted, Charles W. Leach Christopher Wright Edward A. Robson, Chairman ATTACHMENT#1 AGREEMENT OF COOPERATION BETWEEN THE KOBE THEOLOGICAL HALL (KOBE, JAPAN) AND THE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, USA) Preamble The Kobe Theological Hall (KTH), Kobe, Japan, founded in 1996, and the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, foundedin 1810, enter into an agreement of cooperation with one another, because of our commitment to furthering the ministries of each institution to the worldwide church of Jesus Christ. Faculty KTH and RPTS faculty will be free to serve in the other institution, as schedules, finances, needs, and translation facilities permit. One RPTS faculty member will be encouraged to minister at KTH each school year. Each KTH faculty member will spend a two-week period in intensive personal study at RPTS, involving one public lecture, and preaching in local churches and in the RPTS chapel. The cost of these interchanges is negotiable between KTH et RPTS. Students RPTS may grant transfer academic credit to KTH students in order to complete the M. Div. or other degrees or diplomas.
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