Decision Number 1077

Decision

Questions of law asked in response to a first draft of a report made to an annual conference are hypothetical because the annual conference did not adopt such report in final form. Questions of law pertaining to efforts by an annual conference to discontinue a probationary member are moot once the clergy person requests and is granted a voluntary leave of absence.

James W. Holsinger, Jr., Jon R. Gray and Shamwange P. Kyungu were absent. C. Rex Bevins, the first clergy alternate, and Solomon Christian, the first lay alternate, participated in this decision.