Petition Text: 21854-MN-424-D

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Renumber ¶ 424 as ¶ 334 and amend:

Requirements for Admission to Full Connection and Ordination as Elder.--Deacons who are cCandidates for Full Connection and ordination as elders and who have been probationary members for at least two three years may be admitted into membership in full connection in an Annual Conference and approved for elder's ordination by vote of the clergy members...They shall have: (1) served full time under episcopal appointment for at least two three full Annual Conference years...Supervision is to be (a) personally assumed or delegated by the district superintendent, and (b) assumed by a counseling elder mentor assigned by the Board of Ordained Ministry. Their service must shall be evaluated by the Board...Those probationary members under appointment January, 1981 shall not be subject to the provisions of this paragraph unless the Annual Conference otherwise provides; (2) been previously elected...demonstrated competency equivalence through a process designed in consultation with the Division of Ordained Ministry General Board of Higher Education and Ministry; (b) graduation with a Master of Divinity degree from a school of theology listed by the University Senate or its equivalent as determined by the Division of Ordained Ministry General Board of Higher Education and Ministry; (c) educational requirements...meet the requirements by undertaking an independent study program provided and administered by the Division of Ordained Ministry General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (see ¶ 1529.2); (d) under conditions regarded as exceptional, candidates who completed the first two years of the advanced course of study for ordained ministry and were admitted to probationary membership by a three-fourths vote (¶ 416.2), upon recommendation by the Board of Ordained Ministry when they have completed two additional years of advanced studies specified by and under the direction of the Division of Ordained Ministry and have met all the other requirements, may be received into full membership by a three-fourths vote of the clergy members in full connection, present and voting; (4) satisfied the board...

(6) For the sake of the mission...fidelity in marriage and celibacy in singleness, integrity in all personal relationships, social responsibility...

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Petition Text: 21854-MN-424-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference