Text of: 31455-HE-311-D

Amend 311:

Order of Local Pastors and Order of Deacons and Order of Elders- - There shall be in each annual conference an Order of Local Pastors and an Order of Deacons and an Order of Elders. All persons ordained serving as clergy in The United Methodist Church upon licensing or election to full membership in the annual conference shall be members of and participate in an Order appropriate to their licensing or election. An order is a covenant community within the church to mutually support, care for, and hold accountable its members for the sake of the life and mission of the church. These orders, separately or together, seek to respond to the spiritual hunger among clergy for a fulfilling sense of vocation, for support among peers during this stressful time of change in the Church, and for a deepening relationship with God.

 

 

 

 

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