General Convention passed some major legislation dealing with evangelism and church planting.
Evangelism and church growth
The Convention charged the Standing Commission on
Domestic Mission and Evangelism with initiating "a
national consultation on methods and strategies
identify best practices to reverse the decline in
mainline denominations," and making recommendations to
the 76th General Convention on ways to reverse that
decline in all denominations.
The Convention heard testimony that campus ministry is
an important base for church growth. Resolution A041
supports campus ministry in a number of ways,
including allowing such ministries to become mission
congregations of their dioceses.
Resolution A037 is specifically directed at the 20/20
goals and calls on each bishop to cast a vision for
his or her diocese; calls on all orders of ministry to
speak about what God is doing in their lives; invite
others to worship, and seeks to identify and develop
practical resources for personal and congregational
evangelism through the Church Center staff. More
importantly, it is to be published in all
congregational and diocesan media.
A church planting initiative (A042) includes
provisions for a major gifts campaign, which would be
the first since "Venture in Mission" 25 years ago.
Another resolution (A043) encourages dioceses to
identify "priority opportunities and estimate costs"
for new congregations to fulfill 2020 goals. It
includes a feasibility study for a capital funds drive
to help build these new churches.
Above: from Episcopal News Service