Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1995 - Rparchives.org

68 MINUTES OF THE SYNOD OF THEtogether in praying the Lord of the harvest that he would send laborers intothe field.Out of that meeting and subsequent consideration by the committee, itwas agreed to ask the representatives of the agencies to meet with theFinance Committee at Synod at the call of the Finance Committee. Membersof the Business of Synod Committee will attend if possible. All of therepresentatives will meet at one time and the purpose will be for the memberagencies to work out among themselves a consensus on how the availablemoney in RPMscM should be distributed to meet the goal of the health,growth and multiplication of congregations. The Finance Committee will takeseriously the consensus, but will have the freedom to alter those results intheir recommendations to Synod if they deem wise. We desire to show in atangible way the unity of the work, rather than the sense of competitionamong the boards.The results of this process will be reported to the Synod by the FinanceCommittee. Our committee has no further recommendations beyond thisplan which has been implemented and supported by the chairman of theFinance Committee.Other ItemsThe committee has an "unfinished business" list. Among the items: aconsideration of the structure of the Finance Committee; work on strategyfor use by the respective boards for the attainment of our goals (seeCommunication 94-3 referred to this committee); consideration of a SynodRegistrar to take the place of the Arrangements Committee, and continuingwork on unfinished items of this report.Respectfully submitted,James D. Carson, ChairmanBruce Martin, ex officio as Clerk of SynodHarry MetzgerRaymond MortonKenneth G. SmithThe report of the Committee on Amendments to Chapters 24 and25 of the Testimony (93-5) was taken up. The recommendation wasadopted. The report as a whole was approved and is as follows:REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON AMENDMENTSTO CHAPTERS 24 AND 25 OF THE TESTIMONYYour committee would respectfully report that, in compliance with thedirective of the 1994 Synod, we have been ready to act as a "clearinghouse" for position papers on the proposed Amendments to Chapters 24and 25 of the Testimony. To date, the committee has received nocommunications, and therefore has not met. Also,it was the understandingof this committee, that Synod did not direct the committee to prepareposition papers itself.