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1945-1999 (Creation)
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52 cm of textual records
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The commitment to missionary work to spread the Gospel was a founding principle of the PAOC. The work of the World Missions Committee and its predecessor committees has been consistent in its focus on the support and guidance of mission activities assumed by the PAOC outside Canada. By 1928 the PAOC had developed a Missionary Policy which has changed little in its basic principles. In that same year the Standing Committee on Home and Foreign Missions was created. By 1932 the Missionary Committee was in existence. The Missionary Committee met to discuss and approve the applications of missionaries for overseas assignments, financial details, and issues related to specific mission stations such as the establishment of schools and orphanages. By 1968 the committee became known as the Overseas Missionary Committee or Overseas Missions Committee. The name was changed to World Missions Committee in 1998. In its present form it is a committee of the General Executive and is made up of the Executive Officers and includes representatives from the District Conferences, General Executive, staff members from the World Missions Division, and others with an interest in world missions. The Committee represents missions to the General Executive and works with various sub-committees such as the Missions Advisory Committee, the Operations Committee, the Regional Coordinators Committee, and the District Missions Representatives Committee. The World Missions Committee is responsible for the management of all PAOC missionary interests overseas and has the ability to change the Missionary Policy if necessary. It appoints all missionary applicants to overseas ministry, reappoints missionaries who have completed one or more terms of service abroad.
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The fonds consists of records which reflect the issues relating to missions outside Canada which were brought forward and discussed by the Committee. These records also reflect the subsequent decisions made by the Committee. The records contain minutes, agenda, and reports of the World Missions Committee and its predecessors. The records also includes minutes of other committees related to missions work such as the Study Committee on the Education of Missionaries' Children and the Missionary Status Committee. The reports include reports from individuals such as the Promotional Missionary Secretary and various Field Secretaries. These other minutes and reports provided further information about a particular issue under consideration before the Committee. The series also contains the minutes of the ERDO Committee which was created in 1982 as a sub-committee of the Overseas Missions Committee. The series also includes minutes of the Missionary Salary (or Allowance) Review Committee which made recommendations to the Overseas Missions Committee regarding allowances and salaries for missionaries.
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