Council of Twelve Meeting Minutes, September 17, 1940 – October 6, 1940

–Names of Clerks and their addresses in minutes

–Election of State Mission Board

–Missions Budget

–Report from the committe on selection of State Mission Boards

–Dress question

–Treasurer's Report Forms

–Orphanage buildings

–Colored Work

–Ministers Transferring Membership

–Loan to pay off General Auditorium

–Finance and Tithing

–Transportation Secretary

–Aged and Disabled Ministers

–T.S. Payne

–Revision to sections of previous minutes concerning insurance

–Mission Board

–General Overseer's Parsonage

–Confession of S.W. Latimer

–Auditors Reports

–Bible Training School

–Maine, Nebraska, and Florida Bible Training Schools

–Glen Henderson property

–Rent for Assistant General Overseer

–Committee report on drafting recommendation to Bishops on General Overseer's Parsonage

–Dedication of General Overseers Parsonage

–Life Insurance

–Supplement for the Assembly Minutes

–Craft Tocoa Orphanage

–Eating and drinking

–Eating and drinking in church facilities

–Reinstating Luther H. Brewer

–Assistance for C.R. Simmons

–Ministers out of regular ministry for six months required to submit their papers

–Preaching requirement for Bishops and Evangelists to retain papers

–Approval of building sites by state and district overseers prior to purchase

–Office of Deacon

–General Overseer salary

–Duties of the Assistant General Overseer

–Allocation of emergency funds for General Officials

–Discussion of General Secretary licensing Missionaries

–The authority and duties of local trustees

–Consideration of a portable tabernacle for Canada and Montana

–J.M. Synder

–Clarification of sanctification

–Church member debts

–Discussion of requiring member owned stores to be closed on Sundays

–Allocation of funds for tent purchases

–Short wave radio broadcasting station

–Discussion of striking all Old Testament teachings

–Water baptism and rebirth

–Call for money programs

–Discussion of State Overseers creating rules

–Repurposing of the old auditorium

–Printing of Union Doctrines and government of the church in a small book, published at each Assembly

–State annual Conventions

–General Assembly frequency

–Discussion of reading rules to church bodies each quarter

–Ministerial Tithes

-Lighted Pathway Profits

–Allowance for Bishops

–Committee to investigate Books on Tithe Fund

–Prince Edward Island

–Discussion of making the Bible Training School a Junior College

–Northwest Bible School Loan

–Selection of State Overseers

–Notifying Overseers of Changes

–General Officials to hold only one position at a given time

–Pastoral placements

–Revocation of license ruling

–Brother Terlizzi

–Brother Blake

–General, State, and Local Trustees

–Discussion of the Bible Training School becoming a junior college

–Time of the Assembly

–Assistance to the Overseer of Colored Work

–Orphanage proposition

–Local Boards of Trustees

–L.G. Rouse

–Examination of Doctrine prior to ministerial credentials

–Discussion on Teachings on Spiritual gifts

–F.J. Dake

–Discussion of the Church's opinion on war

–A.C. Craft

–J.M. Synder

–Investigation of Brother Pelton

–Loan request from the Northwest School

–Discussion of the re-instatement of Luther H. Brewer

–Aid requested from Brother Sisk

–Discussion of Social Security

–Request for support for the school in Canada

–General Officials Salaries

–R.R. Walker

–T.S. Payne Publishing House Notes

–Aged Ministers appropriation

–E.M. Bryant

–Bishop's Council

–Modest Apparel

–Questionnaire for Aged Ministers Wives

–Payment of Bishops

–Flowers to be delivered for R.P. Johnson's Funeral

–Nancy Gentry

–Charley Gosset

–Discussion of builidng an Orphanage for the Boys

–Revocation of those not actively engaged in ministry

–L.G. Rouse to be tried for offenses

–Doctrine on Resortation of the Gifts to the Church

–Council of Seventy

–Comparative Requirements of the Southern Association of Colleges and the State Board of Accreditation