Petition Text: 20469-MN-734.1-D

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Amend ¶734.1:

1. Each Annual Conference at the first session following General Conference shall elect for a term of four years provide for the fulfillment of the purposes, duties and responsibilities assigned to the a Board of Diaconal Ministry, by ¶¶734.3-6, and elsewhere, consisting of not fewer than nine persons. by structuring itself as it deems appropriate. The Annual Conference shall determine the membership of the structure to which the duties and purposes are assigned, except that Iit is recommended that the board structure consist of include one- third clergy, two- thirds and lay members, and at least one- half of the lay members shall some of whom should be in diaconal ministry careers, preferably diaconal ministers. It is recommended that the board membership include women and ethnic persons. (See ¶¶303-317.) The structure may be assigned other duties and responsibilities, and may have membership in common with other structures. As used in this ¶734 and its various subparagraphs, and elsewhere in the Discipline in appropriate context, references to "the Board of Diaconal Ministry" or 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: 20469-MN-734.1-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference