The General Assembly, seeking to update the legislation relating to travelling expenses, preaching fees, and resident supply, enact and ordain as follows: 1. Travelling expenses. Travelling and accommodation expenses incurred when carrying out duties for the Church shall be paid by the relevant body. 1.1. Boards and Committees. Expenses …
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The General Assembly, with the consent of Presbyteries, desiring arrangements regarding the Sustentation Fund be clarified and updated, enact and ordain as follows: Congregations 1.1 A Sustentation Fund Schedule, drawn up by the Mission Board, shall be filled up on behalf of each congregation seeking to be given …
The General Assembly endorse the Board’s plan to support growth through a change to the remittances scheme. They declare that the congregational fixed allowance be reduced from £25,000 to £23,000, and that the fixed allowance for assistant ministers be reduced from £15,000 to £14,000, effective 1st January 2018. The …
The General Assembly recognise the importance of planning over a longer time horizon. They instruct Boards and Committees to work with the Board of Trustees to produce budget schedules for 2018, 2019 and 2020. They also instruct Presbyteries to work closely with the Mission Board and formulate strategic plans …
The General Assembly approve the Missions Board’s Principles of Funding document for the apportionment of the discretionary part of its budget to the mission work of the Church. They instruct that this Principles of Funding document be adopted by the Church. The Principles of Funding are as follows: 1. …
The General Assembly declare that the Evangelism Sub-Committee, so designated by Act XXVII, Class II, 2007, be disbanded effective from the rising of the 2016 General Assembly. They approve of the revised financial arrangements for evangelism support whereby funds allocated to the Sub-Committee for the support of evangelism will …
The General Assembly support the proposal to establish a Development Fund utilising a portion of the funds allocated for home mission to be distributed by the Home Missions Board in accordance with its strategy for the promotion of ministry and mission. They instruct the Home Missions Board to move …
The General Assembly endorse the conclusions arrived at in the Board of Trustees’ review of the current system of congregational remittances and approve the proposed changes to the system. They declare as follows: The Central Projects Levy shall be renamed as the Mission Levy and the Additional Contributions shall …
The General Assembly direct the Board of Ministry to make financial provision up to a total of £5,000 in each case for Probationers who fail to secure Job Seekers’ Allowance over the period between the end of the Church’s financial provision and ordination, this period to last no longer …
The General Assembly direct the Board of Ministry to require all students commencing their theological preparation for the Free Church ministry to sign a declaration promising that, should they fall from their intention to enter the Church’s ministry, they will reimburse the Church for any monies received to enable …