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Committee on Ethnic Local Church Concerns shall be in every annual conference a conference Committee on Ethnic Local Church Concerns or other structure to provide for these basic functions and to maintain connectional relationship.  

It shall provide for these functions:

• Keeping the vision of ethnic local church concerns before the annual conference;
• Providing guidance and resources to churches in the annual conference as they minister with and to ethnic constituencies;
• Coordinating annual conference strategies related to ethnic local church concerns including general church emphases and initiatives;
• Providing a forum for dialogue among the ethnic constituencies, as well as with annual conference agencies;
• Providing training for annual conference and congregational leaders;  
• Promoting and interpreting ethnic local church concerns to the annual conference;
• and Working with annual conferences to identify and nurture leaders, lay and clergy, of ethnic communities.

Adopted 2004 General Conference