Is there such a thing as a local church board having two-year terms of office? I could only find references in the Manual to elections being held at annual meeting, which implies one-year terms, but is there anything that precludes two-year terms?
Is there such a thing as a local church board having two-year terms of office? I could only find references in the Manual to elections being held at annual meeting, which implies one-year terms, but is there anything that precludes two-year terms?
No. Actually, it is certainly possible if the church meeting agrees.
113.11. Elections. At the annual church meeting there
shall be an election, by ballot, of the stewards (137), the
trustees (141, 142.1), the Sunday School and Discipleship
Ministries International superintendent (SDMI) (146), and
the members of the SDMI Board (145), to serve for the next
church year and until their successors are elected and qualified.
Where laws permit and when it is approved by a majority
vote of the church members present, all those elected
may serve a two-year term. All those elected shall be active
members of that same local Church of the Nazarene.
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Thank you, I don't know how I missed that!
Yes, this is what our church board does - they are all two year terms (unless someone moves or needs to resign in the middle of the term, then someone else is elected in for the remainder of that term), but they are staggered, so we vote on half the board each year. This has worked out really well for us b/c then there's always overlap. We've been doing this for a few yrs. now and I'm pretty sure we had to or did run it past our DS before it was implemented.
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