GC33 Literacy (1990L326)

The 33rd General Council:

  1. urges United Churches across Canada to initiate volunteer literacy programs and/or support literacy programs already established;

  2. urges United Church members to be sensitive to this serious social situation; and

  3. urges church courts, designers of worship and curriculum resources, and worship leaders to be sensitive to the diversity of literacy levels within their constituencies.

 

GC33 1990 ROP, p. 89

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