college students and various cultural and ethnic communities. The function of Commission On the Small
Membership Church shall be included.
Center for Pastoral Excellence
The Center for Pastoral Excellence is responsible for enhancing clergy effectiveness through recruitment,
training, continuing education, peer learning, and mutual accountability. In addition, the Center will
emphasize the development of younger and more diverse pastoral leadership.
Office of Connectional Ministries
The Office of Connectional Ministries is responsible for assisting congregations by providing connections
between and among congregations, the districts, the annual conference, and the general conference. At least
the following teams and organizations shall be included: Core Practices Team, Council on Youth Ministries,
Council on Young Adult Ministries, Lay Ministry Team, Commission on Communication, UMW, and UMM.
This office shall fulfill the role of the Director of Communications. Its Core Practices Team shall act as the
Board of Discipleship on behalf of the annual conference.
The Office of Mission, Service, and Justice Ministries
The Office of Mission, Service, and Justice Ministries is responsible for assisting congregations to be
effective in ministry beyond their walls through a variety of hands-on and direct relationships with people
in need and through advocacy for just relationships in society. At least the functions of the following teams
and organizations shall be included: Board of Global Ministries, Board of Church and Society, and the
Commissions on Christian Unity, Committee on Ethnic Local Church Concerns, and Native American
Ministries, Status and Role of Women, and Religion and Race.
Office of Administrative Services
The Office of Administrative Services is responsible for maintaining systems of financial and property
management that are efficient, secure, trustworthy, and transparent on behalf of the annual conference. At least
the Council on Finance and Administration, Board of Trustees, Board of Pensions, Board of Ordained Ministry,
Commission on Equitable Compensation, and the Commission on Archives and History shall be included.
100.25 Conference Personnel Committee
The Mission Council will form the Conference Personnel Committee from among its voting members. Through
this committee, the Mission Council will work in consultation with the Bishop and the Director of Finance
and Administrative Ministries to design and align all conference staff positions. The Personnel Committee, in
consultation with the Bishop, is responsible for the employment of the directors of the centers and offices that
are assigned to the Mission Council, except for the Director of Finance and Administrative Ministries who is
employed by the Council on Finance and Administration.
100.30 Conference Personnel:
In consultation with the Conference Personnel Committee, the Director of Finance and Administrative Ministries
is responsible for the employment and supervision, or delegation of supervision, of all conference personnel except
for directors assigned to the Mission Council. Employees of the Conference shall include women and men, persons
of diverse racial and ethnic origin, lay and clergy, at every level. Ordained ministers on the staff are subject to
being appointed by the presiding bishop in consultation with the Conference Personnel Committee.
100.35 The Mission Council shall work in consultation with the Conference Council on Finance and
Administration in forming annual budgets that are recommended to the session.
100.40 The Mission Council reports to the session on behalf of the centers, offices, and their subsidiary teams,
committees, councils, boards, commissions, and task forces, except for those assigned by the Book of Discipline to
make direct reports to the session.
2009 Missouri Annual Conference B-23
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