1996 Book of Discipline: Paragraph 359| General Conference 2000

Section XV. Readmission to Conference Relationship

¶ 359. Readmission to Probationary Membership--Persons who have been discontinued as probationary members under the provisions of ¶ 318.6 from an annual conference of The United Methodist Church or one of its legal predecessors may be readmitted by the annual conference in which they held previously such membership and from which they requested discontinuance or were discontinued, or its legal successor, or the annual conference of which the major portion of their former conference is a part, upon their request and recommendation by the district committee on ordained ministry, the board of ordained ministry, and the cabinet after review of their qualifications, as required in

¶ 315, and the circumstances relating to their discontinuance. When reinstated by vote of the clergy members in full connection, their probationary membership in the conference and their credentials shall be restored, and they shall be authorized to perform those ministerial functions for which they are qualified.



	1996 Discipline ¶ 359
	`Section XV. Readmission to Conference Relationship` ¶ 359. Readmission to Probationary Membership--Persons who have been discontinued as probationary members under the provisions of ¶ 318.6 from an annual conference of The United Methodist Church or one of its legal predecessors may be readmitted by the annual conference in which they held previously such membership and from which they requested discontinuance or were discontinued, or its legal successor, or the annual conference of which the major portion of their former conference is a part, upon their request and recommendation by the district committee on ordained ministry, the board of ordained ministry, and the cabinet after review of their qualifications, as required in `¶ 315, and the circumstances relating to their discontinuance. When reinstated by vote of the clergy members in full connection, their probationary membership in the conference and their credentials shall be restored, and they shall be authorized to perform those ministerial functions for which they are qualified.`
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1996 Discipline ¶ 359