CHAPTER IX. SUPERNUMERARY AND SUPERANNUATED MINISTERS. Supernumerary Ministers. ¶ 194. A Supernumerary Minister is one who, because of impaired health, is temporarily unable to perform full work. This relation shall not be granted for more than five years in succession. He may receive an appointment, or be left without one, according to the judgment of the Annual Conference of which he is a Member; and he shall be subject to all the limitations of the Discipline in respect to reappointment and continuance in the same Charge that apply to Effective Ministers. In case he has no Pastoral Charge he shall have a seat in the Quarterly Conference, and all the privileges of membership, in the place where he resides. He shall report to the Fourth Quarterly Conference, and to the Pastor, all Marriages solemnized and all Baptisms administered. In case he resides beyond the bounds of his Conference he shall forward annually a Certificate similar to that required of a Superannuated Minister, and in case of failure so to do the Conference may locate him without his consent. He shall have no claim on the Conference funds except by vote of the Confer ence. Superannuated Ministers. 195. Every Superannuated Minister, who is not employed as Pastor of a Charge, shall have a seat in the Quarterly Conference, and all the privileges of membership in the Church where he resides. He shall report to the Fourth Quarterly Conference and to the Pastor all Marriages solemnized and all Baptisms administered. If he resides without the bounds of the Conference of which he is a Member, he shall annually forward to his Conference a certificate of his Christian and Ministerial conduct, together with an account of the number and circumstances of his family, signed by the Presiding Elder of the District or the Pastor of the Charge within whose bounds he resides; without which the Conference shall not be required to allow his claim, and may locate him without his consent. 117 |