The General Assembly shall be presided over by the general superintendents. (25.6, 307.3)
Index: organization
300.2
The General Assembly shall elect officers and organize for transaction of business. (25.7)
300.3
Rules of Order. Subject to applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of government in the Manual, meetings and proceedings of the Church of the Nazarene, local, district, and general, and the committees of the corporation shall be regulated according to Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised (latest edition) for parliamentary procedure. (35)
301
The General Assembly shall be composed of ministerial and lay delegates in equal numbers from each Phase 3 district, the district superintendent serving as one of the assigned ordained ministerial delegates, remaining assigned ordained ministerial delegates and all lay delegates elected by district assemblies; general superintendents emeriti and retired; general superintendents; Global Nazarene Missions International president; Global Nazarene Youth International chair; Church of the Nazarene, Inc. officers and directors who report to the plenary of the General Board; one-half of the regional International Board of Education school presidents from each region will be voting members, and the other one-half will be non-voting members, with the number and selection process determined by the International Board of Education; Nazarene Publishing House president; Pensions and Benefits International director; Stewardship Ministries global director; Church of the Nazarene Foundation president; Research Services global director; and one General Board-commissioned missionary delegate per region elected by the assigned contracted missionaries serving in that region. In the absence of such election the missionary representative shall be elected by the Global Mission Committee.
307.3
315
The general superintendents shall organize as a board and arrange for and assign to the members work over which they shall have special jurisdiction.
326.1
Record and preserve the journal of proceedings of General Assembly and General Board.
328
The general secretary, in conjunction with the general superintendents, shall, prior to the opening of General Assembly, prepare necessary forms, including Rules of Order “Manual” Abridgment for revision, and other things for expediting the work of General Assembly. Expense incurred shall be provided for out of General Assembly expense fund.
331.2
The general secretary shall be ex-officio secretary of the Church of the Nazarene, Inc., and the General Board.
331.3
The general treasurer shall be ex-officio treasurer of the Church of the Nazarene, Inc., and the General Board and also of the departments of the Church of the Nazarene, Inc. (330.2)