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models, and counseling assistance programs to all clergy and families. Staff-parish relations committees will use strategies and training resources for their members in these specific concerns of clergy and families. District superintendents and their spouses may be called on to provide modeling and leadership for their clergy families in successful strategies. Superintendents will prioritize this issue as they work with local congregations in transitions and ongoing appointments. Annual conference commissions on the status and role of women will survey spouses and families of clergy to assist annual conferences, bishops and cabinets, and general agencies in gathering data and developing resources and strategies in response to the challenges of life in the clergy family. The General Commission on the Status and Role of Women will host a page on the www.gcsrw.org <http://www.gcsrw. org> website dedicated to posting available resources, links and conference events related to clergy spouse and family support ministries. The General Commission on the Status and Role of Women will post on www.gcsrw.org <http://www.gcsrw.org> the Clergy Housing Handbook: Parsonages for easy availability and free accessibility to local church and conference boards of trustees, staff-parish councils, bishops, cabinets, boards of ordained ministry and commissions on the status and role of women. The research and data from the summit findings from GCSRW and other collaborating general church boards and agencies will be published in a summary document and made available for use by United Methodist annual conferences and other denominations and religious bodies. ADOPTED 2004 AMENDED AND READOPTED 2012 RESOLUTION #2023, 2008 BOOK OF RESOLUTIONS RESOLUTION #22, 2004 BOOK OF RESOLUTIONS
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