Petition Text: 21437-DI-225-D

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Renumber ¶ 225 as ¶ 228.1d and amend as follows:

1.d) It shall be the duty of the pastor, the parent(s), or guardian(s), sponsor(s) or godparent(s), the officers and teachers...the privileges and obligations of church baptism and professing membership. The pastor shall, at least annually, building on the preparation which boys and girls youth have received throughout their childhood, organize them into classes for professing membership and confirmation the youth who, preferably, are completing the sixth grade (¶ 216.3). This instruction shall be based on materials which the boys and girls youth have already used and on other resources produced by The United Methodist Church for the purpose of confirmation preparation. When Wherever boys and girls youth so prepared shall give...and obligations of Church professing membership, they may be received into full membership as professing members.

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Petition Text: 21437-DI-225-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference