All 24 Petitions

All 24 Petitions

A special "shout out" of thanks to Reid Broce, a fellow UM in the Virginia Conference, who sent me this link for all the petitions that will be voted upon this Summer at the Annual Conference meetings around the US and the world.

Here is the link –

http://www.worldwideumc.org/uploads/WorldWidePetitionsFinal.pdf


And here is the info found on the home page of this site…
http://www.worldwideumc.org/Home_Page.html

(If you go to this page, be sure to check out the video link at the bottom – let me know what you think – more on the video later!)

A Report from the Council of Bishops and the Connectional Table to the General Conference

We, as the United Methodist Church, are privileged to live as one connectional church located in over thirty-eight countries. The Council of Bishops and Connectional Table jointly present this report and its petitions for consideration by the General Conference.

This website makes available to you the report that led to the actions taken last Spring. Those bodies amended the proposals, most notably suggesting that central conferences be renamed “regional conferences.” Thus, there are now 24 petitions advocating changes in the Constitution. Please note the portion of our report that tells you what this proposal does not invite us to do:

It does not change the number, purpose or function of Jurisdictional Conferences
It does not change the way bishops are elected or assigned
It does not change the purpose, number or scope of any general agency
It does not change the size or power of General Conference
It does not change the way the Social Principles are decided upon or amended
It does not change the way money is apportioned or allocated


It does do three things:

Makes constitutional changes of the terminology central conference to regional conference
Makes constitutional changes allowing a future General Conference to create structures for regional and jurisdictional conferences that are the same everywhere in the United Methodist Church
Provides for continued study and a report to the 2012 General Conference by the Connectional Table and Council of Bishops


Next week – lots of info on fasting!

Pastor John Bright