Full Board Exec.Comm Candidates Registrar's Office Counseling Mentor Program Local Pastors Continuing Effectiveness Conference Relations
The following are situations that will require ordained clergy to inform and meet with Conference Relations:
1. Experiencing difficult life passages and changes that affect them personally and may impact their professional ministry such as separation, divorce, death of spouse or serious long-term illness.
2. Requesting a professional status change:
a. Full-time to less-than-full-time
b. Change to or from less than full-time appointment
c. Leave of Absence, voluntary or involuntary
d. Honorable location
e. Discontinuance
f. Parish ministry to appointment beyond the local church and appointment beyond the local church to parish ministry.
g. Retirement
h. Return to the effective relation from and other status.
i. Readmission from location or discontinuance from probationary membership
j. Sabbatical leave
k. Incapacity leave
l. Termination
3. Requesting transfer into the conference from another polity
4. Requesting recognition of ordination from another denomination or sister Methodist denomination. (see Appendix A)
