The president of Nazarene Publishing House shall be elected in accordance with 335.19, except that the Board of Directors will select one of their number to serve on the Search Committee when a new president is to be elected, and the Nominating Committee shall be composed of the six general superintendents, three members of the Board of Directors who are not members ex-officio, and three members of the General Board Executive Committee. He or she shall be amenable to the general superintendent in jurisdiction.
Section: General Government
338.6
The president of Nazarene Publishing House shall be a member of the Global Ministry Center Directors Fellowship and the Planning and Budget Council.
339
Following the General Assembly, the Board of General Superintendents shall appoint a General Christian Action Committee, one of whom shall be the general secretary, who shall report the committee’s work to the General Board.
Duties of the General Christian Action Committee are to:
339.1
Provide and develop constructive information regarding matters such as alcohol, tobacco, narcotics, gambling and other current moral and social issues in harmony with church doctrine, and to disseminate the information in denominational communications.
339.2
Emphasize the sanctity of marriage and the sacredness of the Christian home and to point out the problems and evils of divorce. In particular, the committee should emphasize the biblical plan of marriage as a lifelong covenant, to be broken only by death.
339.3
Encourage people to serve in places of leadership in organizations working for civic and social righteousness.
339.4
Alert people regarding the Lord’s Day observance, oath-bound secret orders, entertainments that are subversive of the Christian ethic, and other types of worldliness. (29.1)
339.5
Assist and encourage each district to establish a Christian Action Committee; and to provide each district committee with information and material on current moral issues to be disseminated to each local church.
339.6
Monitor moral issues of national and international importance and present the scriptural viewpoint.
340
The Committee on the Interests of the God-Called Evangelist shall be composed of the revivalism coordinator, who shall be ex-officio chairperson of the committee, plus four tenured evangelists and one pastor. The USA/Canada office director, in consultation with the revivalism coordinator shall submit a list of nominees for the committee to the Board of General Superintendents for approval and appointment. The committee or its designee shall personally interview commissioned evangelists who have been recommended by their respective district assemblies for “tenured evangelist” status (509.3). It shall also review the state of itinerant evangelism in the Church of the Nazarene and make recommendations concerning both revivals and evangelists to the appropriate committee of the General Board. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment from the Board of General Superintendents from recommendations received from the USA/Canada office director, in consultation with the revivalism coordinator. (317.7)