be re-elected. The board appoints, from among its members, an executive committee consisting of 5 persons. The board also appoints its chairman and vice chairman.94 No woman is represented on the board. The average age among the regular members is 51 years and among the deputy members 43 years. Of the regular members there are 5 managers, 1 painter, 3 pastors, 1 office secretary, 1 businessman.
6.4 The Philadelphia Central Fund for Preachers (Here called the Assistant Fund.) At the Preachers meeting in the Philadelphia Church in Stockholm in December 1945, ‛matters of the utmost importance for the revival‛ were discussed. Thus among other things, ‛the question of support of needy preachers, missionaries and evangelists within the Swedish Pentecostal Revival,‛ were discussed ‛and the problem of widows and children under age.‛ The discussions led up to a ‛resolution to recommend to the Philadelphia Church in Stockholm to form a foundation with the objective as stated above‛. The policy for that foundation was compiled by a committee appointed by the Preachers meeting. The proposal was carried. At ‛the regular administrative meeting on the 29th April 1946, ‛the Philadelphia Church decided to ‛form a foundation‛, and to decide the regulations for this foundation. 6.4.1 The Foundation’s Board The purpose of the foundation is to fulfil the objectives presented at the preachers meeting. From the regulations, in paragraph 4, it is evident that the work should be economized by ‛gifts and other contributions from private individuals and Christian Churches.‛ The board should have seven members appointed by the Philadelphia Church in Stockholm at its yearly administrative meeting. Two of the members should be members of the Stockholm Philadelphia Church, the remainder can be chosen from ‛other Pentecostal Churches in Sweden‛. We furthermore read in paragraph 6 that the Philadelphia Church in Stockholm can ‛dismiss board _________________ 94 Regulations, ’Allmänna Spar- och Kreditkassan’, 5.9.51.
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