Appendix A, continued
Adoption Grant Policies
•Presbytery has a matching grant program.
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•Local churches help their own members. Presbytery matches what a church gives.
•Grants of $500 per child.  $500 from a church gets $500 from the Presbytery.
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•Special needs adoptions are stressed, but exceptions are allowed.
At New City Fellowship member families may request the Deacons to help in adopting children.   This is a positive step in fighting abortion.  The church Deacons then decide if they wish to use their resources to help meet this request.  If so, the Deacons write a letter to the Mercy Committee of Presbytery and request a matching grant.   Presbytery always sends mercy funds through the local church, never directly to a person or family.  The local church can then give the family, or the designated agency, the total of church grant and matching grant (at this time up to $1,000.00) toward an adoption.
    At New City we encourage special needs adoptions, especially of African American or BI-racial children.
    This would be a worthy program for endowment, either through the Presbytery or the local church.