Regionalization

Section VI. Annual Conferences

¶37

Who may be elected a lay delegate.

2024 Discipline
¶37
On the ballot paper
¶36
Article
V
Change
Amended

What changed

Terminology. The two-year membership and four-year participation requirements are unchanged.

Before

Book of Discipline 2020/2024, ¶37

The lay delegates to the General and jurisdictional or central conferences shall be elected by the lay members of the annual conference or provisional annual conference without regard to age, provided such delegates shall have been professing members of The United Methodist Church for at least two years next preceding their election, and shall have been active participants in The United Methodist Church for at least four years next preceding their election, and are members thereof within the annual conference electing them at the time of holding the General and jurisdictional or central conferences.

After

Petition 21039, as ratified

The lay delegates to the General Conference and to their respective regional conference, as well as jurisdictional conference if its regional conference has jurisdictions, shall be elected by the lay members of the annual conference or provisional annual conference without regard to age, provided such delegates shall have been professing members of The United Methodist Church for at least two years next preceding their election, and shall have been active participants in The United Methodist Church for at least four years next preceding their election, and are members thereof within the annual conference electing them at the time of holding the General Conference and regional conferences as well as the jurisdictional conferences, if its regional conference has jurisdictions.

Word by word

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The lay delegates to the General Conference and to their respective regional conference, as well as jurisdictional orconference centralif conferencesits regional conference has jurisdictions, shall be elected by the lay members of the annual conference or provisional annual conference without regard to age, provided such delegates shall have been professing members of The United Methodist Church for at least two years next preceding their election, and shall have been active participants in The United Methodist Church for at least four years next preceding their election, and are members thereof within the annual conference electing them at the time of holding the General Conference and jurisdictionalregional orconferences centralas well as the jurisdictional conferences. if its regional conference has jurisdictions.