The District Conference
This Conference is a division of the Annual Conference. It is presided over
by the Presiding Elder. It is composed of all the traveling ministers, superannuated supernumery,
local Elders, deacons, local preachers, Exhorters and all officers in the Missionary and Christian
Education Department.
The District Conference duties include looking into the spiritual and temporal
affairs of churches, schools and benevolent societies within its bounds; to inquire into the
recommendation of the quarterly conference, grant new or renew local preacher’s licenses. The
District Conference also examines preachers who are studying to be admitted to the Annual
Conference.
A District Convention is the name of the meeting where the church school’s
organizations are separate from the District Conference. The District Directors of Christian
Education Preside alternately under the leadership of the Elder.
