2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3350:2

(2) Ministerial Student. A student engaged in full-time study in preparation for ordination, either by enrolling in the four-year or five-year ministerial or pre-ministerial course of a Wesleyan educational institution, or in an approved theological seminary or other approved graduate-level program of theological education, or by pursuing full-time study in the Ministerial Study Course Agency either by correspondence or by work in a college along with correspondence, if the student meets all other qualifications (3015:1), may be granted a license and appointed by the district conference as a ministerial student (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3015:1). The ministerial student shall be a nonvoting member of the district conference (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1090:4).