Petition Text: 22071-MN-437-D

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Amend ¶ 437:

The Itinerant System.----The itinerant system is the accepted method of The United Methodist Church by which ordained ministers clergy members are appointed by the bishop to fields of labor. Appointments may be made to full-time, part-time, or bi-vocational service. All ordained minsters clergy members shall accept...

1. Full-time service shall be the norm for ordained ministry in the Annual Conference. Full-time service shall mean that the clergy person's entire vocational time,...

2. Less than full-time Part-time or bi-vocational service may be rendered by a clergy member under the conditions stipulated in this paragraph. Less than full-time Part-time or bi-vocational service shall mean...and the Cabinet, the ordained minister clergy person, and the Annual Conference Board of Ordained Ministry or the district Committee on Ordained Ministry is devoted...increments by the bishop to less than full-time part-time or bi-vocational service without loss...Appointment to less than full-time part-time or bi-vocational service is not a guarantee...

a) The ordained minister clergy member seeking less than full-time part-time or bi-vocational service should present...

b) ...Board of Ordained Ministry, the less than full-time part-time or bi-vocational category shall be confirmed...

c) Reappointment to less than full-time part-time or bi-vocational service shall be requested by the ordained minister clergy person and approved annually by the bishop and Cabinet and shall not be granted for more than a total of eight years except by a three-fourths a two-thirds vote of the clergy members in full connection of the Annual Conference.

d) Ordained ministers Clergy persons who receive appointment at less than full-time to part-time or bi-vocational service remain...the appointment is to be made. Exceptions to the six-month deadline shall be approved by the Cabinet.

e) The bishop may make ad interim appointments at less than full-time part-time or bi-vocational service upon request of the ordained minister clergy person following consultation...

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Petition Text: 22071-MN-437-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference