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80Th General Convention of the Episcopal Church 2022 The Episcopal Church Reports to the 80th General Convention Otherwise known as The Blue Book Volume 2 Reports of the Committees, Commissions, Agencies, and Boards to The General Convention of The Episcopal Church Baltimore, in the State and Diocese of Maryland July 7th – 14th, 2022 Copyright © 2021 The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America Office of the General Convention 815 Second Avenue New York, New York 10017 TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 1 Preface Acknowledgements Directory of Proposed Resolutions ......................................................................................... iv Executive Council Reports Executive Council Report ............................................................................................. 2 Subcommittee Reports Joint Standing Committee on Governance and Operations ............................ 15 Joint Standing Committee on Mission Beyond the Episcopal Church ............. 19 Joint Standing Committee on Mission Within the Episcopal Church ...............32 Joint Standing Committee on Finance ............................................................ 35 Committees Reporting Through Executive Council Joint Audit Committee of the Executive Council and the DFMS .................... 40 Assessment Review Committee ..................................................................... 45 Executive Council Investment Committee ...................................................... 50 Executive Council Economic Justice Loan Committee ................................... 53 Executive Council Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility ................. 56 Executive Council Conant Fund Grant Review Committee ............................. 85 Executive Council Constable Grant Review Committee ................................. 86 Executive Council Roanridge Trust Grant Review Committee ....................... 90 Scholarship Grant Committee ......................................................................... 93 Executive Council Committee on Anti-Racism & Reconciliation ..................... 95 Executive Council Committee on HBCU ..........................................................115 United Thank Offering Board ......................................................................... 120 Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue in the USA .............................................. 125 Moravian Episcopal Coordinating Committee ............................................... 127 Presbyterian Episcopal Dialogue Committee................................................. 130 United Methodist Episcopal Committee ........................................................ 156 Report on Resolutions Referred to Dioceses ............................................................ 149 House of Bishops Reports House of Bishops Committee on Pastoral Development .......................................... 153 House of Bishops Committee on Theology ............................................................... 156 Presiding Bishop's Council of Advice ......................................................................... 158 House of Deputies Reports House of Deputies Committee on the State of the Church.......................................160 President of the House of Deputies Council of Advice ............................................. 191 Agencies & Boards Reporting to General Convention Board for Transition Ministry .................................................................................... 194 i Board of the Archives of the Episcopal Church ......................................................... 198 Board of Trustees for the Church Pension Fund ....................................................... 222 Board of Trustees of the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church ... 249 Court of Review ......................................................................................................... 253 Disciplinary Board for Bishops .................................................................................. 258 Episcopal Relief and Development Board of Directors ............................................. 261 Forward Movement.................................................................................................. 265 General Board of Examining Chaplains .................................................................... 269 Other Reports to the 80th General Convention Presiding Officers' Advisory Group on Beloved Community Implementation ......... 279 Report for the Presiding Bishop's Staff .................................................................... 290 VOLUME 2 Joint Standing Committee Reports Joint Standing Committee on Nominations Joint Standing Committee on Nominations Report ..................................... 303 Nominees – Executive Office of the General Convention............................... 311 Nominees – Church Pension Fund Trustees................................................... 313 Nominees – Court of Review ......................................................................... 325 Nominees – Disciplinary Board for Bishops .................................................. 344 Nominees – Executive Council ...................................................................... 354 Nominees – General Board of Examining Chaplains ..................................... 365 Nominees – Trustees of the General Theological Seminary .......................... 377 Nominees – Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop ....................................................................................... 382 Joint Standing Committee on Planning and Arrangements ..................................... 398 Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance .................................. 402 Standing Commission Reports Standing Commission on Structure, Governance, Constitution and Canons ........... 408 Standing Commission on World Mission .................................................................. 433 Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music ............................................................ 466 Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music Subcommittee Reports Subcommittee for Policy & Evaluation .............................................. 484 Subcommittee on the Calendar ......................................................... 490 Subcommittee on Constitution and Canons ...................................... 523 Subcommittee on Formation ............................................................ 524 Subcommittee on The Book of Common Prayer................................ 527 Subcommittee on The Book of Occasional Services ......................... 534 Subcommittee on Liturgical Translation ............................................616 Task Force Report Task Force on Liturgical & Prayer Book Revision ..................................................... 620 ii VOLUME 3 Task Force Reports Task Force on Care of Creation & Environmental Racism ........................................ 652 Task Force on Church Planting and Congregational Redevelopment ...................... 665 Task Force on Clergy Formation & Continuing Education ........................................ 679 Task Force on Communion Across Difference ......................................................... 686 Task Force on Dialogue with South Sudanese Anglican Diaspora ............................ 712 Task Force on Disability & Deaf Access ..................................................................... 717 Task Force on Formation & Ministry of the Baptized ................................................ 732 Task Force on Liturgical & Prayer Book Revision ................................ see: Vol. 2, p. 620 Task Force on Ministry to Individuals with Mental Illness ......................................... 772 Task Force on New Funding for Clergy Formation ................................................... 785 Task Force on the Budget Process ........................................................................... 789 Task Force on Theological Education Networking ................................................... 830 Task Force on Theology of Money ........................................................................... 835 Task Force on Theology of Social Justice Advocacy ................................................. 938 Task Force on Women, Truth and Reconciliation ..................................................... 957 Task Force to Assist the Office of Pastoral Development ....................................... 1007 Task Force to Coordinate Ecumenical & Interreligious Work .................................. 1062 Task Force to Develop Churchwide Family Leave Policies ......................................1084 Task Force to Develop Model Sexual Harassment Policies & Safe Church Training .... 1106 Task Force to Respond to Opioid Epidemic ............................................................. 1141 Task Force to Study Sexism in TEC & Develop Anti-Sexism Training........................ 1147 iii DIRECTORY OF PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS A001 Site for 82nd General Convention.......................................................................... 401 A002 General Convention Daily Agenda .........................................................................401 A003 Uniform Paid Family Leave Policy ........................................................................ 1103 A004 Continue Task Force on Dialogue with South Sudanese
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