Lay Nominations from Districts to General and Jurisdictional Conference
General Conference will be held April 24-May 4, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference will be July 11-15, 2012, at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center in Western North Carolina. If you are interested in being nominated as a delegate to these conferences, please read the Conference Rules below and then complete the Lay Nominee Form and send it to your District Office.
The lay nominee form is available by clicking here (Word)
Please be aware that there will be delegation meetings to attend and much reading and studying in preparation for General Conference.
III. ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO GENERAL CONFERENCE AND THE JURISDICTIONAL CONFERENCE
D. LAY NOMINATIONS FROM DISTRICTS AND AGENCIES
1. Lay Nominations. Nominations for lay delegates to General Conference and the jurisdictional conference shall be made by the lay members of the district conference of each district from names submitted by the District Council on Ministries and/or from names of all persons given by any member of the United Methodist churches of the district to the District Superintendent. These names shall be submitted by the superintendent to the District Conference. Additional nominations at the district conference may be made from the floor, provided that no nomination may be made without the agreement of the nominee to serve if elected. In the event of a tie for the final nominee(s), the nominee(s) shall be selected by lot.
2. Number of Persons to be Nominated. Each district may nominate up to one person for each 2,000 members of the United Methodist Church or major fraction thereof in that district, based upon figures reported at the preceding annual conference. District nominees need not be from the district which nominates them.
3. (Not applicable to districts)
4.Church Membership. All nominees shall have been professing members of The United Methodist Church for at least two years preceding their nomination and must be members of churches in the Virginia Annual Conference and shall have been active participants in the United Methodist Church for at least four years preceding their election. They also must be active members within the United Methodist Church at the time of holding General Conference and jurisdictional conference. The four-year participation and two-year membership requirements may be waived for young persons under twenty-five years of age. Such persons must be members of the United Methodist Church and active participants at the time of election.
E. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON LAY DELEGATE NOMINATIONS
1. (Not applicable to districts)
2. Function. Each District Superintendent shall by January 15 of the year of election submit to this committee in care of the Director of Connectional Ministries completed forms for all nominees from the district. The committee shall then forward a list of all nominees to the agencies named in ¶ III.D.3. Each agency of the annual conference shall be responsible for forwarding to the committee any completed nomination form no later than March 1. The committee shall then compile all nomination forms alphabetically according to the last name of the nominee. The nomination forms shall be printed in a booklet and mailed to each lay member at least two weeks prior to the annual conference.
3. List of Nominees. The lay nominees shall be those persons named on the nomination forms and contained in the materials furnished to each lay member of the annual conference. No additional nominations may be made from the floor, though lay members may cast write-in ballots for persons not included in the list of nominations.
