2016 Wesleyan Discipline:Circuit: Conferences

528. Circuit Conference. The members of the several churches on a circuit, duly called and assembled together to do business, shall constitute a circuit conference. It shall follow the same organizational and procedural pattern as a local church conference (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:630–650). Its duties and powers shall be:

(1) To call the pastor and set the terms of pastoral service (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:315:2; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:690–722).

(2) To license lay ministers (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3410–3420) and to recommend suitable members to the district conference for district licenses as ministerial students and special workers (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3015, 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3033, 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3460).

(3) To elect lay delegates to the district conference (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:315:7; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1100–1109).

(4) To elect a circuit secretary, such members of the circuit advisory council (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:530) in addition to the ex officio members as the circuit conference shall determine are needed to assure proper representation, and a circuit board of trustees (if such is needed, cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:532).

(5) To determine all matters involving two or more of the churches on the circuit, including the authorization of transactions involved in the purchase, erection, encumbrance, sale or other disposition of a circuit parsonage or other property (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4740–4750).