Anglican Communion Development Committee
Financial Guidelines
As of February 2010
The ACD Committee will use the following prioritization for recommendations of financial resources.
- NOTE: This portion would not comprise more than 1/4 of these funds, or no more than 20% of the total monies allocated to the ACD Committee
80% - Grants to support Strategic Missional Relationships
To include:
Grants to Provinces and Dioceses of the Anglican Communion.
Grants to promote and encourage God's Kingdom and "Biblical Anglicanism" in areas without a substantive Anglican presence.
"Visits of Opportunity" that support, create and/or sustain missional relationships. (i.e. - financial assistance for transportation and hospitality provided visitors to the diocese and visitors from the diocese.)
10% - Grants in support of sponsored full time diocesan Missionaries
To include:
Those raised up from within the diocese that serve as Missionaries in areas and in ministries that support the goals of the ACD Committee and the diocese.
10% - Grants in support of institutions and ministries
To include:
Those mission related institutions and ministries that share in the goals of the ACD Committee and the Diocese of South Carolina.
Those institutions and ministries with historical precedence or prior commitment of diocesan financial support from mission funds.
The ACD Committee will encourage parish based sponsorship and support for missionaries and missionary sending agencies.
The ACD Committee will not consider funding requests for missionaries sponsored through local parishes and missionary agencies.
The ACD Committee will not consider funding requests for support of individuals participating in short-term missions.
The ACD Committee will try to maintain an up to date record of all existing missional relationships from throughout the diocese for resource sharing and for broader opportunities for extending these missional relationships.
The ACD Committee will encourage parish based coordination and inter-church cooperation and participation in short term missions that promote, encourage and sustain strategic missional relationships.
The ACD Committee has identified areas of the worldwide Anglican Communion that can join with the Diocese of South Carolina to help shape the future of Anglicanism in the 21st Century through mutually enriching missional relationships, and through modeling a responsible autonomy and inter-provincial accountability for the sake of Jesus Christ, his Kingdom and his Church. This list is not exhaustive but is comprised as a starting point to identify those provinces and dioceses that would be given priority for limited resources of both finances and time. Anglican Provinces include Tanzania, Uganda, Jerusalem and the Middle East, Burundi, Sudan, South East Asia, Nigeria, and Southern Cone. Specified dioceses include some few within both Ireland and England.
Additionally, the ACD Committee recognizes the opportunity for support of mission to unreached people groups in areas not represented at all, or nominally represented by an Anglican Church presence. These areas include China and Turkey.
Finally, the ACD Committee recognizes the opportunity to partner in mission with all those within North America who would seek through an Anglican expression of Christianity to help shape the future of Anglicanism in the 21st century for the sake of Jesus Christ, his Kingdom and his Church and to make Biblical Anglicans for a Global Age.
