Dear Clergy and Lay Members of the Alabama-West Florida Conference,
Registration is now open for the November 12, 2023, Special Called Session of Annual Conference to be held by Zoom Webinar. The purpose of the special session is to vote on any matters related to local church disaffiliations within the Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference.
As a reminder, the called conference session will consider only matters pertaining to this call; no other business can be considered.
The meeting will begin at 4:00pm and should last no longer than one hour.
Who votes
Elected lay members last seated at the June 2023 session of Annual Conference in Mobile will serve as the voting lay members for the November called session (¶602.5). Clergy membership of the annual conference is defined in ¶32 of The Book of Discipline.
Registration
Please register as soon as possible through this link.
Participants will be manually approved upon verification of voting credentials through our database and attendance records. A unique webinar link will be sent to the registration email after verification. Please note that the webinar link sent to your provided email address is unique to that person. DO NOT share your link as it may interfere with your voting ability.
All voting will be done through the Zoom polling option. No additional voting credentials will be necessary for this special session. Registration for the November called session closes on November 9. This is a firm deadline.
Disaffiliation information for each of the churches to be voted on will be available on the conference website two weeks prior to the special session (October 27). If you have questions specifically related to the disaffiliation process, please contact your district superintendent.
A live stream of the November called session is available for those who are not voting members. The link will be available on the conference website (www.awfumc.org) one week prior to the session. If you have questions related to the November 12 special called session, contact Sarah McWilliams (sarah@awfumc.org).
Sincerely,
Mary Catherine Phillips
Alabama-West Florida Conference Secretary