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Local Church Organization * The basic organizational plan for the local church shall include provision for the following units: a Charge Conference, a Church Council, a committee on pastor-parish relations, a board of trustees, a committee on finance, a committee on lay leadership, and such other elected leaders, commissions, councils, committees, and task forces as the Charge Conference may determine. Every local church shall develop a plan for organizing its administrative and programmatic responsibilities. Each local congregation shall provide a comprehensive program of nurture, outreach, and witness, along with leadership training, and the planning and administration of the congregation's organizational and temporal life, in accordance with the mission of The United Methodist Church. The Church Council and all other administrative and programmatic structures of the local church shall be amenable to the Charge Conference. The Church Council shall function as the executive agency of the Charge Conference. The pastor shall be the administrative officer, and as such shall be an ex officio member of all conferences, boards, councils, commissions, committees, and task forces, unless restricted by the Discipline.
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