The support of such community service should be apportioned to
the respective denominations concerned to be raised in their
respective budgets in proportion to their respective
representation on the governing board.

d. It shall be the duty of the denomination to which
responsibility shall have been allocated to provide the
best-trained leadership and the best service of which it is
capable out of consideration to the other denominations that
have intrusted the spiritual welfare of their membership to
this group.

e. In determining what denomination has prime responsibility in
a given community of under 1,500 inhabitants the following
shall be considered.

1. Present resident membership and constituency. The
organization having the largest bona fide membership and
constituency should be considered as having prime
responsibility, from this point of view.

2. The residence of the pastor. In general, the pastor's
residence should be given larger weight than membership unless
the denomination having prime responsibility according to (1)
stands ready to provide a pastor's residence in the community
where this denomination has prime responsibility from the
point of view of membership.

3. The location of the church building. The denomination that
has a building located in a village center should be given
precedence over the denomination that has its headquarters in
the open country near a village. The building of the village
church should be suitably located for adequate community
service; that is, near the center of the village.

4. As between the village and the open country church, the
village church should be given prime consideration in putting
on an aggressive community program.

5. No missionary or "sustentation" support should be given by
any cooperating denomination to a pastor in an overchurched
community nor to a "circuit" involving interdenominational
competition until after an adjustment is made either by
reorganization of the circuit or an agreement has been reached
by the mission