Petition Text: 22997-MN-427-D

Understanding Petition Numbers

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Renumber ¶ 427 as ¶ 329 and amend:

1. ...by transfer into probationary, associate, or full membership...Consultation with the chairperson or executive committee of the Board...

2. a) ...by transfer into probationary, associate, or full conference membership...Prior consultation with the chairperson or executive committee of the Board or Ordained Ministry shall be held, in order to determine that the minister meets the functions for which the individual is eligible to be licensed and that the standards for conference membership established by the Discipline and the Annual Conference have been met.

3. a) ...receive them as probationary members, associate members, or local pastors apprentice ministers, or certified ministers....whether they meet the educational and experience requirements for conference membership.

b) ...probationary members for at least two four years and complete all the requirements of ¶ 424 327, including courses in United Methodist history, doctrine, and polity, before being licensed and admitted into full conference membership....

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Petition Text: 22997-MN-427-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference