2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1440-1443

1440. Function. The district board of administration shall serve as or shall establish a district spiritual formation leadership team, which shall endeavor to develop, supervise, correlate, and promote a comprehensive district program of spiritual formation, viewing it as a total process, dealing with the whole person, aiming at a fully coordinated discipleship program in harmony with the objectives for spiritual formation as set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:2305 (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1233:22). 1443. Membership. If a separate district spiritual formation leadership team is established, it shall have as its chair a person elected by the district board of administration. General regulations governing other members of this board are set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1275-1292. Additional members shall be chosen in one of the following ways:

(1) Supervision Option. The district board of administration shall elect two or more ordained ministers and an equal number of lay members to serve with the chair as the district spiritual formation leadership team.

(2) Coordination Option. The district spiritual formation leadership team shall consist of the chair elected by the district board of administration (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1233:22), the district director of spiritual formation (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1460), the district director of adult ministries (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1494), the district director of youth ministries (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1492), the district director of children’s ministries (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1489), the district director of Sunday schools (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1483), the district director of leadership training (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1486), the district president of Wesleyan Youth (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1492), the district director of women’s ministries, the district coordinator of Wesleyan Kids for Missions, the district educational director (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1496), and such members-at-large as the district board of administration shall elect.