GS 1965 ARTICLE 147: Fund CO Article 19.

Advisory Committee I presents a proposal for the creation of a general fund for needy students.

The following decision is taken:

• “The General Synod has taken note of the Proposal of the Church of Edmonton, “to decide to set up a general fund for needy students and to ask the Churches for an annual contribution for this.”
• The Synod considers that the way in which the training for the ministry of the Word is now arranged poses certain difficulties in determining costs and providing support, since students have to travel from one place to another.
• The Synod considers that it is fair that, until the training is established in a particular location, the assistance to students be arranged generally.

The Synod decides:

• a.    to appoint five deputies, who will manage a to be formed fund and will assess applications from students and possibly grant them.
• b.    to authorize these deputies to hold one or more collections or annually, to ask for the equivalent amount per year for this general fund.”