255. Membership--The membership of the administrative board shall consist of the following insofar as the offices and relationships exist within the local Church:
The pastor and the associate pastor or pastors; diaconal ministers, deaconesses, and home missionaries appointed to serve therein; church and community workers under appointment by and certified by the National Division of the General Board of Global Ministries, providing their memberships are in said local Church, with an advisory relationship in all other Churches to which they are assigned; the chairperson of the administrative board; the lay leader(s); the lay member(s) of the annual conference; chairperson of the trustees; the Church administrator (business manager); the chairperson of the committee on finance; the chairperson of the committee on pastor-parish relations or one of the church's representatives on the committee on pastor-parish relations, if chairperson of the committee is from one of the other Churches; the secretary of the committee on nominations and personnel; the Church treasurer(s); the financial secretary; the Church historian; the director or the associate of Christian education or the educational assistant; the director or the associate of evangelism; the director or the associate of music or the music assistant; the chairperson of the council on ministries; the work area chairpersons; the age-level and family coordinators; the superintendent of the Church school; the health and welfare ministries representative; the coordinator of communications; the membership secretary; the president of United Methodist Women; the president of United Methodist Men; the president of the United Methodist Youth Council; members at large (251.2). The employed professional staff who are members of the administrative board shall not vote on matters pertaining to their employee relationship.
Members of the administrative board shall be persons of genuine Christian character who love the church, are morally disciplined, are committed to the mandate of inclusiveness in the life of the church, are loyal to the ethical standards of The United Methodist Church set forth in the Social Principles, and are competent to administer its affairs. It shall include youth members chosen according to the same standards as adults. All shall be members of the local Church, except where central conference legislation provides otherwise. The pastor shall be the administrative officer, and as such shall be an ex-officio member of all conferences, boards, councils, commissions, committees, and task forces, unless restricted by the Discipline.8
8See Judicial Council Decisions 469, 500.
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1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 255
1996 United Methodist General Conference