Executive Council Meeting Minutes, April 21 - 23, 1998

-Executive Council - Opening of Session

-Agenda and Time Schedule - (also Appendix/attachment-1)

-General Overseer's Report - Church Ministries Conference

-Church of God School of Ministry

-General Assembly Forum

-General Overseer's Report - Executive Council Resolution

-Internationalization

-General Assembly (National Convention)

-International Offices Structure

-Evaluation of Local Church Ministries

-Ministerial Training

-Ministerial Certification

-International Offices Structure

-Local Church Ministries

-Ministerial Discipline

-Property Deeds

-Introduction

-Sample Letter from General Overseer to All Ministers

-Commendation - General Executive Committee

-Commendation - Mike Baker, Ken Bell, Donald Aultman

-1998 GENERAL COUNCIL AGENDA - (also Appendix/attachment-2)

-Declaration of Faith, Doctrinal Commitments

-Biblical Ordination

-1998 General Council Agenda - Order of Succession of Elected Department Heads

-Tenure of Executive Committee

-Property Deeds

-Cost-of-Living Announcement

-Other Considerations

-Strategy Committee Reports - General Assembly Forum

-Doctrinal Issue - Rapture & Tribulation

-Lay Ministries - International Lay Ministries Board - (also Appendix/attachment-3)

-Ladies Ministries - Department of Women's Ministries - (also Appendix/attachment-4)

-Patten College - Affiliation Agreement - (also Appendix/attachment-5)

-East Coast Bible College - Proposal to Transfer Properties to General Church

-East Coast Bible College Task Force

-Theological Seminary - Loan Authorization

-Ministerial Licensure - Multiple Marriages - (also Appendix/attachment-6)

-Ministerial Licensure - Reinstatement

-James Daniel Ward

-Applicants with Previous Marriages Requesting Ordination

-Benefits Board - Annual Report

-Westminister - Upper Room, California Loan Underwriting

-Letter of Commendation

-FINANCIAL SUMMARY - (on file in the office of the general secretary-treasurer)

-Fedlyn Beason - Report on Jamaica

-BUDGET REVIEW

-Media Ministries

-General Evangelism Fund

-Evangelism and Home Missions

-Ladies Ministries

-Youth and Christian Education

-Tithe Fund

-Stewardship

-Stewardship Publicity Campaign on Estate Planning

-Cross-Cultural Ministries

-Public Relations

-Ministry to the Military

-Ministerial Development

-Music Ministries

-Insurance

-Lay Ministries

-Northwest Bible College

-Chaplains Commission

-Black Ministries

-Ministerial Care

-SpiritCare

-Computer Services

-Hispanic Ministries

-Men/Women of Action

-Benevolence

-Publications

-World Missions

-Education Funding - (also Appendix/attachment-7)

-Per Diem Mileage Reimbursement

-INTERNATIONAL OFFICES PAY SCALE

-Publications - Pathway Bookstore

-Executive Council - Microphone for Guests

-Revival Response Committee - Five-fold Ministry Offices

-INTERNATIONAL OFFICES

-Lay Ministries - International Lay Ministries Board - September 1998 Executive Council Session - (also Appendix/attachment-3)

-Ladies Ministries - Department of Women's Ministries - 1998 General Council Agenda - September 1998 Executive Council Session - (also Appendix/attachment-4)

-General Assembly Minutes - Resolution on Rewording General Assembly Minutes - 1998 General Council Agenda

-Committee to Draft Resolution on Rewording General Assembly Minutes

-Loan Underwriting Nashville, TN (Hispanic)

-Youth and Christian Education - State Youth & Christian Education Board - 1998 General Council Agenda

-Ministerial Licensure - Multiple Marriages - (also Appendix/attachment-6)

-PRIOR NOTICE AND BICAMERAL SYSTEM - 1998 General Council Agenda - (also Appendix/attachment-9)

-General Assembly Minutes - Resolution on Rewording General Assembly Minutes - 1998 General Council Agenda - (also Appendix/attachment-10)

-Ministerial Discipline and Restoration - 1998 General Council Agenda - (also Appendix/attachment-11)

-Marriage/Divorce Prior to Conversation - (also Appendix/attachment-12)

-Proposed Revisions to Minutes - (also Appendix/attachment-13)

-General Council Agenda - Biblical Ordination - (also Appendix/attachment-14)

-General Assembly Forum

-General Council - "You and Your Church" Video - (also Appendix/attachment-15)

-Commendation - Lamar Vest

-Commendation - Joel Edwards

-Strategy Committee Reports - Property Deeds - (also Appendix/attachment-16)

-General Assembly Forum

-Resolution on Evangelical Leadership - (also Appendix/attachment-17)

-Commendation - Paul L. Walker

-Commendation - Administrative Staff

-Executive Council - Referral of Minutes to General Executive Committee

-Privileged Statement - Fedlyn Beason

-Privileged Statement - Gerald Honey

-Executive Council - Dates of Future Sessions