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10-06 To Safeguard Evangelical Ecclesiastical

Supervision and District Judgments .....................503

10-07 To Establish an Independent Appeals Panel

in Cases involving the President’s Decisions ......504

10-08 To Require Greater Transparency When

Disciplinary Judgments Are Reversed .................504

10-09 To Provide Pastoral Care for Congregations

Affected by Major Disciplinary Actions ..............505

10-10 To Study Ecclesiastical Supervision in Light

of Lutheran Confessions ......................................505

10-11 To Amend Bylaw 4.4.6 (c) to Require

Reporting All Complaints to Subjects .................506

10-12 To Amend Bylaw Section 2.14 to Address

How Public Sin Is Handled by Dispute Resolution Process ...............................................506

10-13 To Replace Dispute Resolution Process with

Biblical, Workable, and Effective System for Ecclesiastical Supervision ..............................507

10-14 To Replace Dispute Resolution Process with

Biblical, Workable, and Effective System for Ecclesiastical Supervision ..............................508

10-15 To Provide Scriptural Reforms to Dispute

Resolution Process ...............................................509

10-16 To Provide Scriptural Reforms to Dispute

Resolution Process ...............................................510

10-17 To Amend Bylaw 1.10.2 to Render Dispute

Resolution Non-Exclusive Remedy .....................510

10-18 To Require No One to Participate

in the Dispute Resolution Process ........................511

10-19 To Allow Parties to Delay Hearing to Await

Commission Opinion ...........................................511

10-20 To Amend Bylaw 1.10.18.1 (g) to Allow

Parties to Record Proceedings ..............................511

10-21 To Direct Revisions to Bylaw Section 1.10

Standard Operating Procedures Manual re Witnesses and Evidence ...................................512

10-22 To Amend Bylaw 1.10.7.4 to Allow Advisors

to Represent Parties in Dispute Resolution Process .................................................................513

10-23 To Amend Bylaw 1.10.10.1 to Provide

for Reconciler Reviews ........................................513

10-24 To Request Council of Presidents to Clarify

Circumstances of Called Worker Removal or Resignation ......................................................513

10-25 To Request Council of Presidents to Clarify

Circumstances of Called Worker Removal or Resignation from Roster ..................................514

10-26 To Amend Bylaw 2.13.3.2 to Make Restriction

Appeals Public Record and to Allow Further Review .................................................................514

10-27 To Standardize and Strengthen Response

to Rostered Worker Sexual Abuse .......................515

10-28 To Require Completion of Ecclesiastical

Investigations and Strengthen Response to Clergy Sexual Misconduct/Abuse ....................515

10-29 To Require Completion of Ecclesiastical

Investigations and Strengthen Response to Clergy Sexual Misconduct/Abuse ....................516

10-30 To Require Completion of Ecclesiastical

Investigations and Strengthen Response to Sexual Misconduct/Abuse by Rostered Church Workers ...................................................517

10-31 To Certify Accuracy and Trustworthiness

of Call Documents ...............................................518

10-32 To Allow Pastors to Opt Out of Pre-Call

Interviews and/or Contact ....................................519

10-33 To Amend Bylaw 2.10.3 to Allow District

Presidents to Share Issues prior to Installation ....519

10-34 To More Directly Oversee Service of Ordained

Ministers to Congregations to Which They Have No Formal Call ...........................................520

10-35 To Encourage Pastors to Honor Their Own

Call .......................................................................520

10-36 To Call for Publication of Council of Presidents

Manual .................................................................520

10-37 To Provide Compensation for Circuit Visitors ....520

10-38 To Amend Bylaw 2.11.2.2 (c) regarding

Candidate Reporting ............................................520

10-39 To Amend Bylaw 2.11.2.2 (c) regarding

Candidate Reporting ............................................521 Correction in Registration Listing ...............................523

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