OUR FATHER, considering:
That service, democracy and brotherhood are the fundamental principles in the cooperative movement;
That our objective is not only to serve the economic but also the social and cultural development as well as the human advancement of the members; and
That in the cooperative system, the primary cooperatives, the federations and unions, the power of ultimate decision excepting those reserved by laws, resides in the membership.
Grant us your Grace,
To make integrity and unselfishhness the basic standards of conduct;
To guard against the use of our position in the cooperative for personal advantage;
To discharge our responsibilities so as to promote and protect the best interest of the cooperative and its members;
To accept the obligations of attendance, learning and participation relating to the position held;
To give issues, objective hearings, to vote according to conscience and to support majority rullings; and
To encourage open, democratic procedures in the election of qualified candidates for volunteer service to fellowmen.
All these we ask of YOU.
Amen.
