2016 Wesleyan Discipline:District Board of Administration Duties Related to the District Conference
From Wesleyan Discipline
Related to the District Conference
- (4) To cooperate with the district superintendent in evaluating the health of the district; establishing policies, goals, and objectives for more effectively fulfilling the mission of the district; empowering the district superintendent to pursue the goals and objectives, within the established policies and through the district’s pastors and members; and periodically receiving performance reports from the district superintendent regarding progress.
- (5) To carry out the plans and objectives of the district conference.
- (6) To cooperate with the General Superintendent in establishing the date for the annual session of the district conference so that the General Superintendent may preside (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1112; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1935:28).
- (7) To call for a reconvened session of the district conference by a two- thirds majority vote of all members of the district board of administration, subject to the approval of the General Superintendent, and to call for a reconvened session when requested to do so by the General Board (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1115) or its Executive Board or the General Superintendent.
- (8) To allot to each church or circuit of the district the number of lay delegates it shall elect to the district conference (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1100).
- (9) To submit resolutions directly to the district conference that will provide for a more efficient administration, better correlation and advancement of the district work, and to submit proposed memorials to the General Conference (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1557; cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1180:3).
- (10) To serve the district conference as a committee on pastoral relations and ministerial appointments, being responsible:
- (a) To review all pastoral agreements between churches and ministers of the district (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:690-722).
- (b) To receive a report from the district board of ministerial development concerning matters related to district conference appointments and relations as set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1390:10.
- (c) To submit to the district conference a comprehensive report covering all the churches and ministers of the district: recommending any necessary changes in the boundaries of the pastoral charges or in the classification of churches (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1180:24-25; cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4720–4750); recommending the appointment of pastors for all churches for the coming year (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:510:1), including the approval, alteration or veto of pastoral agreements already made by the churches and ministers (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:323:2), and the appointment of pastors or the delegation of responsibility for such appointment for churches otherwise without pastors (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1180:26), and recommending the appointment and/or classification of all other ordained ministers (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3075:5), commissioned or licensed ministers, special workers and the licensing of ministerial students as set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1180:26 and 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1240 (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3015:1).
- (11) To carry out the following duties concerning the United Stewardship Fund (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:2000-2045): to submit a recommendation to the district conference for the raising of the district obligation and the apportioning to each church of its share of the district obligation (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:2015; cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1337:6); to approve adjustments in United Stewardship Fund assessments due to building projects as set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:2005:2; to administer the district plan for raising the district obligation and to see that such obligation is paid in full (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:2015:3).