This manual was developed in response to action of the 1997 Annual Conference session and revised by action of the following Annual Conference sessions. The manual is distributed to all pastors under appointment and to each local church office.
Extra copies are in each district office, with permission to copy as needed.
This manual is intended to be placed in a loose-leaf binder. Replacement pages for amended sections will be provided following annual conference during subsequent years of the current quadrennium. The manuals are the property of the local congregation and its officials and are to remain in the local congregation and be passed on to the appropriate successors. Sections amended by Annual Conference action will be noted every year in the conference Journal. In the first year of each quadrennium, beginning in 2001, a listing of all section and subsection headings will be printed in the Journal with the date of the most recent revision noted.