1. Affirm, facilitate, and provide recognition to all Episcopalians serving as missionaries.
1.1 Executive Council will recognize individually, as Episcopal Church missionaries, all missionaries sent by member organizations of EPGM, provided that mutually agreed upon standards are met and that EPGM ensures that comprehensive liability insurance is carried by member organizations and by EPGM.
1.2 EPGM will periodically convene consultations to compare member organizations' standards for qualifications, financial support, cross-cultural training, accountability, pastoral care, sexual misconduct prevention, health and liability insurance and re-entry, and from this process review and revise EPGM's Standards for Sending Long-term Missionaries.
1.3 EPGM will oversee member organizations' compliance with such standards.
1.4 EPGM will convene consultations on guidelines for short-term mission pilgrimages.
2. Assist and encourage the sending of missionaries to the Episcopal Church USA from the Anglican Communion and wider church.
2.1 EPGM will establish for the receiving of missionaries from other churches standards for invitation by episcopal authority, hospitality, financial support, itineration, cultural orientation, housing and insurance.
2.2 EPGM will coordinate networking among its organizations about missioners available for itineration in the Episcopal Church.
3. Coordinate, publicize and promote mission education across the Episcopal Church.
3.1 EPGM will establish a Mission Education Working Group from member organizations.
3.2 EPGM will coordinate development of mission education resources, collaborating with the Global Episcopal Mission Network through its Mission Institute.
3.3 EPGM will acknowledge, celebrate and advance the Episcopal Church's contributions to missiology (scholarship devoted to mission history, theology and practice).
3.4 EPGM will help the Church understand the new realities of Christianity's strength in the Two-Thirds World.
4. Convene organizations and individuals working in particular geographical areas or people groups in order to develop coherent long-range strategies.
4.1 EPGM will plan consultations with international partners.
4.2 EPGM will develop pockets of expertise in geographical areas and issues of concern.
5. Advance new missionary approaches.
5.1 EPGM will encourage missionary outreach that promotes the development of self-supporting, self-governing and self-propagating churches that honor the various cultural expressions of historic Christianity.
5.2 In cooperation with the Episcopal Church's international partners, EPGM will develop new strategies that are light in organization and responsive to needs.
5.3 EPGM will convene topical consultations in light of emerging needs, global developments, ecumenical conversations, and missiological thought.
6.Enhance recognition that much of the global mission outreach of the Episcopal Church is carried out through congregations, dioceses and voluntary societies, and that the greatest opportunity for mission growth may be through such structures.
6.1 The EPGM story will be told through verbal presentations and written materials.
6.2 EPGM will establish communication channels, such as an enhanced website, among EPGM member organizations, international partners and others to facilitate referrals and cooperation.
6.3 EPGM will establish a speakers bureau.
7. Be a resource for the Standing Commission on World Mission (SCWM) in its task of proposing world mission policy for the General Convention.
7.1 Joint meetings will be held of SCWM and EPGM at least once in each triennium.
7.2 SCWM will be a member of EPGM.
7.3 EPGM will suggest to General Convention's presiding officers candidates for SCWM membership.
8. Increase funding for global mission.
8.1 Increase funding within the General Convention Program Budget through a line item for EPGM in the AGR budget.
8.2 Seek funding beyond the General Convention Program Budget for agreed upon world mission projects across the Church.
9. Affirm ecumenical partnerships in the one world mission of Christ.
9.1 Publicize existing world mission partnerships as models for local ecumenical cooperation.
9.2 Encourage ecumenical partnerships and participation in ecumenical associations of mission agencies in such areas as training, education, in-field collaboration, mission teams and joint appointments.