Petition Text: 20445-DI-729-D

Understanding Petition Numbers

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Amend ¶729:

Conference Board of Discipleship.----The Annual Conferences shall provide for the fulfillment of the purposes, duties and responsibilities shall organize assigned to the a Board of Discipleship or equivalent structure that by ¶¶729.1-7 and elsewhere, by structuring themselves as they deem appropriate. The Board, or the structure organized, shall provide...as set forth in ¶¶1201, 1202. The Annual Conference shall determine the membership of the structure except as specifically required in this paragraph. The structure may be assigned other duties and responsibilities, and it may have membership in common with other Conference structures. When the structure sits as the Conference Board of Discipleship or equivalent, Tthe person or persons within the Annual Conference who serve serving as member(s) of the General Board of Discipleship shall be member(s) of the conference Board of Discipleship sit and may be granted voting privileges. As used in this paragraph and its subparagraphs, and elsewhere in the Discipline in appropriate context, references to "the General Board of Discipleship," and to "the Board," shall be construed and interpreted to refer to the structure provided pursuant to this paragraph, whatever named or titled.

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Petition Text: 20445-DI-729-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference