Petition Text: 21871-MN-445-D

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Renumber ¶ 445 as ¶ 346 and amend:

Continuing Education Formation and Spiritual Growth.--1. Clergy shall be expected to continue their education formation and spiritual growth for Servant Ministry and for Servant Leadership throughout their careers,...

2. In most cases the ordained ministers' continuing education formation and spiritual growth program...

3. An ordained minister may request an educational a formational and spiritual growth leave of up to six months while continuing to hold a pastoral an appointment. An Annual Conference...Such a leave must shall be with the approval...

4. Financial arrangements for continuing education, formation, and spiritual growth shall be negotiated in the following manner: (a) for pastors it shall be done in consultation with the district superintendent and the Committee on Pastor-Parish Relations; (b) for deacons, with an appropriate supervisory body, (b c) for district superintendents, with the district Committee on Superintendency; (c d) for conference staff, with the appropriate committee of the Council on Ministries supervisory body; (d e) for others...

5. Pastors shall be asked by the district superintendent in the Charge Conference to report on their programs of continuing education, formation, and spiritual growth...financial support for the pastor's program of continuing education formation and spiritual growth.

6. Clergy in appointment beyond the local church shall give evidence of their continuing education formation and spiritual growth program and future plans in their annual reports (¶ 443.2a 331.2a).

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Petition Text: 21871-MN-445-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference