2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3100:5-6
From Wesleyan Discipline
3100
- (5) If a minister leaves for parts unknown or fails to submit the annual service report (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1402; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3059:4c; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3089:3), the district board of administration may recommend and the district conference may order that the minister be declared withdrawn (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3040; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3120; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3124).
- (6) No letters of transfer or standing shall be granted to any minister by a district superintendent until satisfactory evidence is given by the applicant that no outstanding debts are unprovided for, and that the minister has honorably withdrawn from the contract for service with the church or district.