Each Phase 2 district shall be entitled to one assigned ordained minister and one layperson delegate to the General Assembly. The assigned ordained ministerial delegate shall be the district superintendent. An alternate will be elected for each delegate.
Index: General Assembly
301.3
A Phase 1 district shall be entitled to one non-voting delegate to the General Assembly. The district superintendent shall be the delegate, providing he or she holds his or her membership on the district. If the district superintendent does not hold his or her membership on the district, an alternate who is a member of the district will be elected.
301.4
The right of an assigned ministerial delegate-elect to the General Assembly to represent the district assembly electing him or her shall be vacated in case he or she shall move to a new ministerial assignment on another district, or if the delegate-elect shall leave the active, assigned ministry of the Church of the Nazarene prior to the convening of the General Assembly. Any minister who has been granted official retirement status by a district would be ineligible to be nominated as a delegate or a delegate-elect to the General Assembly.
301.5
The right of a lay delegate-elect to the General Assembly to represent the district assembly electing him or her shall be vacated in case he or she shall remove his or her church membership to some local church on another district prior to the convening of the General Assembly.
302
The General Assembly shall meet in the month of June, every fourth year, at such time and place determined by a General Assembly Commission composed of the general superintendents and an equal number of persons chosen by the Board of General Superintendents. The General Assembly Commission shall have power, in case of an emergency, to change the time and place of the meeting of the General Assembly.
302.2
The General Assembly shall open with devotional and inspirational services. Provision shall be made for transaction of business and other inspirational services. The General Assembly shall set the time of adjournment. (25.4)
303
The Board of General Superintendents, or a majority thereof, with the written consent of two-thirds of all the district superintendents, shall have power to call a special session of the General Assembly in case of an emergency, the time and place to be determined by the general superintendents and a commission chosen by the Board of General Superintendents.
303.1
In case of a special session of the General Assembly, delegates and alternates to the last preceding General Assembly, or their duly elected and qualified successors, shall serve as delegates and alternates to the special session.
304.2
The General Assembly Arrangements Committee with the general superintendents shall formulate a program for the General Assembly, including emphases for each general interest; Communion service; and religious services; which shall be subject to approval by the General Assembly.
305
The business of the General Assembly, subject to paragraph 25.9 of the church Constitution, shall be to: