245. The basic organizational plan for the local Church shall include provision for the following units: a charge conference, an administrative council or administrative board and council on ministries, a committee on pastor-parish relations, a board of trustees, a committee on finance, a committee on nominations and personnel, and such other elected leaders, commissions, councils, committees, and task forces as the charge conference may determine. Every local Church shall choose a plan for organizing its administrative and programmatic responsibilities.
1. Local churches may establish an administrative council, nurture, outreach, witness, resources ministries model which shall be both the administrative body to which the members, organizations, and agencies are amenable, and the programmatic body which shall consider, develop, and coordinate goals and program proposals for the Church's mission in accordance with the mission of The United Methodist Church.
2. Or local churches may establish an administrative board to which its members, organizations, and agencies are amenable, and a council on ministries which shall consider, develop, and coordinate goals and programs for the Church's mission in accordance with the mission of The United Methodist Church ( 114).
3. An alternative plan may be developed in accordance with the provisions of 248.2.
4. The administrative council or administrative board shall be amenable to and function as the executive agency of the charge conference (see 247).
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1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 245
1996 United Methodist General Conference