Petition Text: 22914-MN-319-D

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Amend proposed ¶ 319 of the Study of the Ministry, page 999:

Probationary Service of a Deacon as a Probationary Member. All persons who are ordained deacons consecrated as probationary members shall be appointed...Board of Ordained Ministry for all ordained deacons probationary members to be involved...

1. The deacons probationary members planning to give their lives as deacons in full connection shall be in ministries of Word and service the entire probationary period as probationary deacons.

2. The deacons probationary members planning to give their lives as elders in full connection shall be in ministries of Word, Sacrament, Order, and Service for the entire at least half of their probationary period as probationary elders. The probationary elders A deacon serving as pastors in of the local church...will evaluate the deacon's probationary member's ability to express his/her ordination as deacon in the congregational context understanding of servant leadership.

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Petition Text: 22914-MN-319-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference