Province VI calls on Episcopal Church to restore funding for Native American ministries

In June, the Provincial gathering passed this resolution:

Resolved, that this 2008 Synod Province VI, meeting on the Standing Rock Reservation of North Dakota, request the Program, Budget and Finance Committee of the General Convention, to increase by 15% the base budget support awarded at General Convention 2006 to each of the four "aided dioceses" for ministry with Native peoples.

Be it further resolved, that the Executive Council's Budget Committee include this request in their budgeting process leading to the next Triennial Budget of the General Convention 2009.

From the Diocese of South Dakota Church News
http://www.diocesesd.org/SepOct08.pdf (scroll down to pp. 4 & 5)