2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1240:III

III. Licensed Ministers

A. PASTORS

(2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3255).
Licensed ministers appointed as pastors, associate pastors or assistant pastors of Wesleyan churches in that district (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:317; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1083:3).

B. OTHER APPOINTMENTS.

Licensed ministers appointed to service in a local church spiritual formation or Christian education program (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3310:2) or in a ministerial capacity to district, denominational or interchurch service (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3250; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3300; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3320; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3335); itinerant Bible teachers (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3310:3).

C. IN PROCESS OF DISTRICT TRANSFER.

Licensed ministers receiving appointment by the district conference to 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1240:III:A or B but whose processes of transfer from another district of The Wesleyan Church are not yet completed.

1. The receiving district shall list the licensed minister under the appropriate category of service, followed by the notation, “Pending Completion of District Transfer.” The licensed minister shall be a non-voting member of this district until completion of the transfer (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3100:1).

2. The sending district shall list the licensed minister as “Applied for District Transfer.” Unless a licensed minister is an ordained minister-elect, said minister shall remain a non-voting member of the sending district until completion of the district transfer (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1083:2, 3).

D. IN PROCESS OF DENOMINATIONAL TRANSFER.

Licensed ministers or their equivalent from other denominations who have been granted recognition as licensed ministers in process of transfer (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3104).