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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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