Download the proposed revisions to our By-laws at the link at the bottom of this page.

We appreciate the feedback from our clusters which resulted in several refinements of the proposed revisions.

The major change from the rough draft sent to the clusters last Spring is a change of the make-up of the Executive Board. The Executive Board decided not to pursue the “Zone Leader” concept at this time. As you will notice the initial make-up of the board will be the cluster leaders.

We look forward to discovering how the Lord will continue to shape us in the days ahead as we continue to work together for fruitful ministry. 

Because of the vital importance of any amendment to the Bylaws messengers voting must possess written credentials from their local churches (Article XII, Section 2). Each affiliated church shall be entitled to have two messengers for the first 25 active resident members, one messenger for each additional 25 resident members to the first 100 members; and one additional messenger for each additional 100 active resident members or fraction thereof. Each church shall send credentials with its messengers on forms provided by the Mission. (Article III, Section 2). A three-fourths (3/4) affirmative vote of credentialed messengers present and voting shall be required to approve a proposed change to the Bylaws (Article XII, Section 2).

Download the Official Messenger Form here: Messengers to Annual Mtg.
          Official Messenger Form

There are two types of changes proposed. 

1. AMENDMENTS: The Gray shading and green type are AMENDMENTS to the bylaws. These are permanent changes being proposed. There are 5 Amendments proposed (see pages 4, 6, 8, 13).

2. ABEYANCE: The areas shaded in Yellow are the parts of the bylaws proposed to be placed in abeyance so that the board may experiment with structures to see how they help. The red lettered changes are how we propose to initially address these issues. The board may make adjustments to the red lettered areas several times in an attempt to discover what is effective and fruitful for ministry. The red areas will expire at the end of 2010 and revert back to the original reading (the yellow shading) unless a formal amendment is approved in keeping with the bylaws.