GUIDELINES FOR STEWARDSHIP

131st Annual Convention November 1983

1. We reaffirm the tithe as the minimum standard of our own giving and of our witness in the world.

2. We urge that every unit of the Church should look beyond its own parochial needs and continue to hold up Mission as a priority of our giving and spending.

3. It should be recognized that outreach includes commitment of our time (our human resources) as well as the allocation of our monetary resources. 

4. The Church should recognize that faithful stewardship requires not only sacrificial giving but care in allocating responsibly the resources entrusted to it.

5. The proportionate allocation of resources to international, diocesan, and parish levels should be determined by the most effective way in which the tasks of the Church including its outreach activities can be carried on and administered.  

In adopting these guidelines, this convention expects that as they are followed at least fifty percent of the budgets at national, diocesan, parish, and mission levels will be spent for purposes and activities beyond ourselves.