2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1503:1
From Wesleyan Discipline
- (1) The voting members shall consist of an equal number of ordained ministers and lay members of The Wesleyan Church (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:325):
- (a) The district superintendent of each district and provisional district and a lay delegate elected at the same time and in the same manner as the other delegates (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1512-1526).
- (b) One ministerial and one lay delegate elected by an established district for every seven hundred fifty members and major fraction thereof. The district superintendent and the lay delegate elected (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1503:1a) shall be the representatives for the first seven hundred fifty members.
- (c) The general officials of the Church as defined in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1800, the General Superintendents Emeriti, members of the General Board who are not voting members by some other right, the presidents of the general educational institutions (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:2365), the general directors of Hephzibah Ministries, Wesleyan Investment Foundation, Wesleyan Native Ministries, the Wesleyan Pension Fund, the Wesleyan Bible Conference Association, and such delegates-at-large as shall be necessary to maintain parity between ordained ministers and lay members (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1508-1510).