Petition Text: 21274-HE-1511.1-D

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Amend¶ 1511.1:

1. [Third sentence] In order to assure...responsibility for clergy in such appointments beyond the local church in extension ministries (443.1.b) as: federal and other governmental chaplaincies, health care ministry settings including pastoral counseling, industrial and community service ministries, including but not limited to: ministry in the military, correctional institutions, the Department of Veterans Affairs, health care settings, pastoral counseling, marriage and family counseling, workplace ministries, community service ministries, and other related ministry settings which conference Boards of Ordained Ministry and bishops may designate. The division shall assist annual conferences to validate the appropriateness of special ministry settings.

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Petition Text: 21274-HE-1511.1-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference