Agency Relationships Work Area Responsibilities

The General Council on Ministries (GCOM) has assigned the following responsibilities to the Agency Relationships Work Area (ARWA). The paragraph citations are from the Book of Discipline, 2000.

Evaluation Responsiblities

•	Enhance the effectiveness of our total ministries by reviewing and evaluating performance of general program agencies to the needs of local churches and annual conferences ( ¶ 905.3 and ¶ 906.14)
•	Review concurrence with the Social Principles ( ¶ 906.2e)

•	Minimize unnecessary overlapping or conflicting approaches to the local church and annual conference ( ¶ 905.2)
•	Consider plans to publish a new periodical ( ¶ 906.9)
•	Resolve an overlapping in structure or function or lack of cooperation among general agencies ( ¶ 906.11)

•	Organization and administration of the World Service Special Gifts Program ( ¶ 906.24)

•	Recommend quadrennial allocations to the general program agencies ( ¶ 906.2a-d)

•	Administer the World Service Contingency Fund and approve allocations to the general program agencies for such additional program funding up to the limit so established. ( ¶ 906.2e)

•	Review annual budgets of general program agencies ( ¶ 906.2f)

•	Recommend the number and timing of special days that are to be observed on a churchwide basis. ( ¶   906.7)

•	Establish a procedure for making a quadrennial review, initiating proposals regarding the location of headquarters and staff ( ¶    906.26)
•	Responding to proposals by the general agencies regarding the location of headquarters and staff. ( ¶    906.26)

•	During 2002 the GCFA and GCOM shall conduct an evaluation of the Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy and based on the evaluation the two Councils shall agree on funding allocations to the Center for 2003 and 2004.
•	Evaluate the Center and report to the 2004 General Conference