Advance Specials Recommendations - 2022

1 2 No budgetary implications 3 4 Whereas the 2016 Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church in paragraph 655 authorizes annual 5 conferences to approve certain programs/ministries for the purpose of fundraising from the churches of 6 the conference by the status of Conference Advance Specials, 7 8 Therefore, be it resolved that the following ministries be approved as Conference Advance Specials. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 • Anti-Poverty Initiative (University UMC: Syracuse) • Beechwood Continuing Care/ Pastoral Care • Brown Memorial UMC: Syracuse • Campership Fund • Campus Church ConneXion Buffalo • Chautauqua County Rural Ministry, Inc • The Children’s Center for the Common Good

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 • Children’s Home • Gary Bergh Scholarship (of the Task Force on Peace with Justice in Palestine and Israel) • Genesee Area Campus Ministries • Geneseo Wesley Foundation • Haiti Partnership • Mission Central UNY Hub • Mutambara Mission Centre Water

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 • Native American Mission, Onondaga Nation UMC • Native American Outreach/Transportation Program • New Places for New People • The Neighborhood Center, Inc • Niagara Frontier City Missions • Protestant Cooperative Ministry at Cornell • Refugee and Immigrant Support Services of Emmaus (RISSE) • Seneca Street UMC: Buffalo • UMCOR Kits Shipment Dollars • United Methodist Homes’ Chaplaincy Program • Volunteers In Mission Scholarship Fund • Watertown Urban Mission • Wesley Gardens

Submitted by: Rev. Jeffrey B. Childs, Global Ministries Team Chair 5164 St. Rt. 89, Romulus, NY 14541 315-729-4464 revchilds@hotmail.com Retired, Penn Yan UMC