PNW-RMN General Conference
What is United Methodist General Conference?
The highest law and policy making body of our denomination is our General Conference. It is made up of equal numbers of lay and clergy church members, elected to meet every four years.
Here's how it works. Your congregation elected a lay member to join your pastor at your regional Annual Conference. That body in turn elects an equal number of lay and clergy to the Jurisdictional Conference to elect bishops. Half those members form the General Conference.
Even with 1,000 official members, General Conference is still just individual Christians from local congregations sharing beliefs, convictions, ideas and hopes with one another. But the policies they legislate become church law.
Information from citizen lobbyists like you is essential to all legislators, including General Conference members. Your personal witness about your gay family member can be of immense personal influence to our denomination's decision makers.
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The Pacific Northwest Reconciling Ministries Network is an affiliate of the national Reconciling Ministries Network, a national grassroots organization that exists to enable full participation of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities in the life of the United Methodist Church, both in policy and practice. |
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