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The principal office of the surviving corporation will be 395 East Broad Street, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 43215.
The purpose for which the corporation is formed is not for profit but to receive, collect, hold, possess, control, manage, invest and administer dona- tions, devises, bequests, legacies and other funds and real and personal property in trust for religious and other charitable uses, in accordance with the Discipline of The United Methodist Church, and for the purpose of carrying on religious work and teaching the doctrines and practices of the Christian Religion, all in accordance with the Discipline, usage and policy of The United Methodist Church; and shall have the power to acquire, hold, sell and convey real and personal property necessary and expedient for its purpose, and to do all things necessary and incident thereto.
The combined respective Trustee Boards of the four merging corpora- tions shall serve as the Trustee Board of the inerged corporation until their successors are elected, and their names and addresses are:
Ohio Annual Conference
1969
W. T. Wilson, 3467 Hudson Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45207
Lloyd E. Fisher, Jr., 17 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215 George H. Day, 92 South Fourth Street, Batavia, Ohio 45103 Harry F. Baker, Box 68, Worthington, Ohio 43085
1970
Oren E. Dickason, 508 National Bank Building, Lima, Ohio 45801 John Wesley Seay, 3486 Epworth Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211 Charles W. Porter, Toledo Trust Company, 245 Summit Street, Toledo, Ohio 43603
Robert A. Byler, 382 North South Street, Wilmington, Ohio 45177
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1971
Waldemar A. Haupt, 140 Stonemill Road, Dayton, Ohio 45409 Evan R. Owens, 440 Lafayette Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 T. Kline Hamilton, 2250 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43209 William A. Clark, Third National Bank Building, Dayton, Ohio 45402
Ohio Miami Conference
1969
Walter Miranda, 126 Crest Hill, Vandalia, Ohio 45377
Hubert Fellers, 3838 West Hillcrest Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45406 Lowell Bowers, 525 Harrison Avenue, Greenville, Ohio 45331
1970
Maurice Gribler, 3709 West Siebenthaler, Dayton, Ohio 45406 C. Edwin Pellett, 3145 Stop Eight Road, Dayton, Ohio 45414 Clifton Hatfield, 8284 Keister Road, Middletown, Ohio 45042
1971
Harold Boda, 3101 Kenmore Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45420
Harvey Hammink, 2386 Willowgrove Avenue, Kettering, Ohio 45419
Carl B. Eschbach, 1610 East Cory Drive, Dayton, Ohio 45406
Ohio Sandusky Conference
1969
O. E. Johnson, 1523 East Main Cross Street, Findlay, Ohio 45840 Burton Crosby, 536 East Wayne Street, Celina, Ohio 45822
Torrey A. Kaatz, 2144 Mellwood Court, Toledo, Ohio 43613
Owen Keim, P.O. Box 277, 224 Smith Street, Green Springs, Ohio 44836
1970
J. Paul Jones, Jr., 623 East Boundary Street, Perrysburg, Ohio 43551 Raymond Heter, R.R. #4, Bellevue, Ohio 44811
Victor Roebuck, 137 East High Street, Hicksville, Ohio 43526 Von Saul, R.R. #5, Findlay, Ohio 45840
1971
Paul Eichar, Bascom, Ohio 44809
Everett Coldwell, 4692 Columbus-Sandusky Road, N., Marion, Ohio 43302 Paul Stephan, Box 270, 138 West High Street, Upper Sandusky, Ohio 43351 John C. Searle, Jr., 220 North Summit Street, Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
Ohio Southeast Conference
1969
Stanley Dunkle, 144 West Hunter Street, Logan, Ohio 43138
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1970 Charles Geil, 1321 Church Street, Logan, Ohio 43138
1971 Raymond Welch, 573 East Main Street, Chillicothe, Ohio 45601 Howard Buckley, 2418 Taylor Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211 Charles D. Redmond, 88 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215
The statutory agent will be Mr. Charles Farthing, 395 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
OHIO WEST AREA PROVISIONS
(Paragraph references are in 1968 Book of Discipline, The United Methodist Church)
For the purpose of this Plan and Basis of Union, the text that follows per- tains to matters not covered by the 1968 Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church.
BOARD OF EDUCATION (Par. 1104-1122)
The Ministerial Student Aid programs under the Board of Education of the former E.U.B. conferences shall be continued under the leadership of a committee composed of two representativs from each of the former E.U.B. conferences plus two representatives of the Ohio Conference of the former Methodist Church to serve as a sub-committee and to be funded by the new Board of Education until such time as the new Board of Ministry establishes cognate programs.
Summary of Bylaws, Board of Education
1. Elected at the beginning of the quadrennium, one minister and one lay- man representing each district plus five ministers and five laymen at large and five District Superintendents. Other representatives are indi- cated in the Discipline and the bylaws.
2. The standing committees shall be Camps and Conferences, Leadership Development, District Educational Work, Certification of Directors and Ministers of Education and Music, Finance, Christian Higher Education and Campus Ministry.
3. The Director of Education of the Conference is the Executive officer of the Board.
4. The Committee on Higher Education and Campus Ministry functions within the framework of the Inter-Conference Commission on Higher Education with 9 designated persons from the Board of Education, being thus represented as stipulated in the bylaws of both bodies.
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5. The Board shall be incorporated* for the purpose of holding title to camp properties which shall be owned by the Conference. There shall be a Board of Trustees of at least 9 persons, but not to exceed 12. The Board of Trustees shall be members of the Camps and Conferences Committee. The Executive Committee of the Camps and Conferences Committee shall be ex-officio members of the Board of Trustees.
PROGRAM COUNCIL (Par. 841-843) (Summary of bylaws)
1. The basic guidelines of this Council are found in the Discipline, para- graphs 841-843.
2. Members of the Council are to be elected at the beginning of the quadrennium. In addition to those outlined in The Discipline are the following:
a. President or chairman of each of the following agencies plus an additional representative from those agencies marked with an *.
*Board of Education
*Board of Evangelism
*Board of Missions
*Board of Christian Social Concerns
Board of Health and Welfare Ministries
Board of Ministry
Board of Pensions
Board of Trustees
Board of Laity
Commission on Worship
Commission on Ecumenical Affairs
Commission on Enlistment for Church Occupations
Commission on Town and Country Work
Commission on Public Relations
*Women's Society of Christian Service
*United Methodist Youth Fellowship
b. A minimum of 5 and a maximum of 8 members at large.
3. The Bishop shall be the chairman.
4. There shall be the following committees:
a. Executive
b. Program Coordination
c. Personnel
d. Interpretation
e. TRAFCO
i. Film Fellowship
#See Corporate Structure section of this PLAN and BASIS of UNION.
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g. Publishing Interests
h. Nominating
i. Finance and Budget
5. There shall be age level and family life departments. The associate di- rectors of the staff shall be the coordinators of each of these departments. Each department shall have a representative from each district, nominated by the district superintendent in consultation with the Director of the Program Council.
6. One member of the Council Staff shall be included as a director or con- sultant of each Conference board or agency who will also be represented on the Executive Committee of that agency.
7. It shall be the duty of the Council to study the various interests, con- cerns, programs, and activities of the Conference involved in reports from the boards, commissions, and committees, and work out a program of coordination of all Conference interests to the end that overlapping, conflicts, duplications shall be eliminated that the full energies of the churches may be channeled to give maximum results in the promotion of the mission of the church. All Conference boards or agencies related to the Program Council are to submit "program" recommendations for action by the Council.
8. The Council shall elect the director and additional associate directors. Their duties shall be determined and defined by the Council upon the recommendation of the Personnel Committee. (The director is nominated by the Bishop and District Superintendents; the associate directors are nominated by the Personnel Committee, Director, and Executive Com- mittee, and subject to the appointment on approval of the Bishop.)
9. The Council shall present a budget to the World Service and Finance Commission for Annual Conference approval, covering staff salaries, office, program, and other expense of the work of the Council and staff upon recommendation of the finance and budget committee. The Council studies the "program" sections of budgets of the program agencies re- lated to the Council. It correlates these askings and makes recommenda- tions concerning these program budgets to the World Service and Finance Commission.
FILM FELLOWSHIP (Summary of bylaws)
1. There shall be established a Film Fellowship Committee of the four conferences of the area under the supervision of the Ohio Conference Program Council, to begin operation June 15, 1969 at the office of the Program Council in Columbus. In June 1970, it will become a commit- tee of the Program Council of the merged Conference.
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2. All audio visual materials will be placed in the central library except some special materials.
3. The operation will be self-supporting (except for rent and utilities) by the means of membership fees on the same scale as now exists in the Ohio Conference.
4. There will be a director who will be responsible for its operation and will be administratively responsible to the Director of the Program Coun- cil of the Ohio Conference.
CAMPS and CONFERENCES (Par. 111.2 -. 3)
1. The Conference Committee on Camps and Conferences, with overall responsibility for the camping program, is to implement its work through personnel and organization on a regional basis. Districts will be responsi- ble for naming district directors of camps and conferences, and local site committees will be created.
2. All camp sites are to be owned by a Board of Trustees* of the Con- ference Board of Education as provided in the 1968 Discipline of The United Methodist Church, (paragraphs 1104.3, 1111.1, 1111.3). Care shall be given to the nominations of trustees representing the various regions, and management boards will be created on the regional and local levels.
EVANGELISM (Par, 1146-1155)
It is recommended that four district superintendents be members of the conference Board of Evangelism.
CONFERENCE EXPENSE
The Conference Expense Commission shall be formed according to the rules printed in the 1968 Ohio Annual Conference Journal, the former Methodist Church, pages 401-2.
It is recommended that the World Service and Finance Commission provide additional funds for the estimated 700 former Evangelical United Brethren ministers and laymen attending the 1970 session of the merged Annual Conference.
HEALTH and WELFARE MINISTRIES (Par. 1173)
1. The Board of Health and Welfare Ministries is to be organized according to the Discipline.
*See Corporate Structure section of this PLAN and BASIS of UNION.
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2. The Mid-West Compact plan of the former Evangelical United Brethren Church is approved and continued support is urged until such time as Otterbein Horne can be self-sustaining with the help of Ohio West Area.
3. It is recommended that the Mid-West Compact be an item in the budget of the Board of Health and Welfare Ministries beginning January 1, 1970.
4. It is recommended to the new Board of Health and Welfare Ministries that support of benevolent ministries with these institutions be continued.
5. It is recommended that a Conference Stewardship Committee be responsi- ble for securing deferred giving in wills and legacies for all boards, agen- cies and institutions of the conference.
6. All institutions and agencies expecting to build or expand their facilities should submit their plans for consideration and approval to the current combined executive committees of boards beginning July 1, 1969 and to the newly organized board after July 1, 1970.
HOSPITALIZATION
1. It is recommended that the Blue Cross-Blue Shield plan of hospitalization insurance be adopted; and that the coverage for the merged conference be the 120 day Blue Cross Major policy and the Major Blue Shield policy including the endorsements which are now a part of the Ohio Annual Conference program. The endorsements include the following: Coverage under family contracts for dependent children until their 23rd birthday; Tuberculosis; Nervous or Mental Disease or Disorder coverage in a Member Hospital for the full 120 days of the contract; Diagnostic X-ray and Diagnostic Medical Expense Indemnity Rider.
It is further recommended that coverage include the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Major Medical Plan.
2. It is recommended that the new coverage begin for all four of the merging conferences as of January 1, 1970 or as soon thereafter as existing contracts can be terminated on their anniversary dates.
3. It is recommended that churches or charges being served by a full time pastor be responsible for the full premium of both pastor and family.
LAY WORKER (Par. 501-508; 667-668)
This Conference committee, composed of not more than fifteen persons, shall be elected at the beginning of each quadrennium,
MINIMUM SALARIES (Par. 924)
The conference Commission on Minimum Salaries is charged with the re- sponsibility of studying the number and extent of the needs for additional ministerial support within the conference. The committee is thus charged
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with the responsibility of requesting from the Commission on World Service and Finance, adequate support to meet such a program.
The Minimum Salary Fund, as described below, shall be used to provide each pastor who receives less than the minimum salary an additional amount, sufficient to make the salary approved by the pastoral charge plus the supplemental aid for income from other sources equal to the minimum salary approved by the conference.
The Fund administered by this commission provides additional assistance to families who have children still at home and where the financial need re- quires additional assistance and supplemental aid.
1. The minimum salary schedule shall be based on a percentage of the average salary as annually reported to us by the General Board of Pensions, and shall not be less than the amount set in the year 1967-68. a. Basic Salary
(1) Conference and Associate members: 80 per cent of average salary. ($7829)
(2) Full-time lay pastors: 70 per cent of average salary.
(3) Students preparing for the ministry: 55 per cent of average salary.
b. Sustentation to be administered by the Minimum Salary Commission, to care for child support in the amount of $200 for each parsonage child born prior to June 1, 1970, under eighteen years of age, living at home.
c. The Commission shall not be responsible for more than $1500 for any minister serving a pastoral charge during a specific Conference year.
d. The commission may give special consideration to cases involving de- pendents of a minister, for whom he has become responsible, other than for his own minor children.
2. Definition of eligibility for minimum salary and sustentation support:
a. Conference members, Associate members, and Lay Pastors serving a charge full time shall be eligible for support if and when certified by District Superintendent; and in the case of those taking the Conference Course of Study, by the Board of Ministry.
b. Those not living on the charge shall be entitled to one-half of the amount approved by the commission for a full-time pastor of the same classification. "Living on the charge" means that the minister's family shall live on the charge in housing provided by the charge.
c. All allowances including travel and utilities (exclusive of water), and the 3% pension payment if paid by the church, shall be counted as part of the remuneration paid by the charge in calculating the mini- mum salary.
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d. Those who are engaged in work outside of their pastoral duties, for which they receive remuneration, shall have such income charged against their eligible benefits.
e. Retired members of the Conference, and retired approved supply pastors, who receive a pension and who are doing full-time work, shall receive supplementary support from the Minimum Salary Fund on the same basis as in Section la, provided that the total amount of the pension and the salary received does not equal or exceed the minimum set by the Conference.
f. No associate or assistant pastor shall be eligible to receive minimum salary support.
g. Any new church shall have been established for at least five years before the pastor can become eligible for minimum salary support.
h. When a church withdraws from a circuit to become a station church, its pastor shall not be eligible for minimum salary support for at least five consecutive years following its withdrawal except as a spe- cial case.
i. The Commission shall consider any charge paying less than $1500 per year for pastor's salary, and/or having a membership less than 100 members, as a part-time charge or mission project with no claim on Minimum Salary or Sustentation.
j. Any minister serving a charge having a membership of 400 or more shall have no claim on Minimum Salary or Sustentation.
k. Each church or a charge shall conduct an annual Every-Member Visitation and submit to the Minimum Salary Commission representa- tives, on a form provided by the Commission, information concerning the visitation and the financial system as the Commission shall re- quire. Churches not complying with this request shall be referred to the District Committee of Stewardship and Finance and the District Superintendents.
1. Any charge whose pastor receives minimum salary support for five (5) consecutive years shall be required to meet with District Superintendent and the Minimum Salary Commission representatives to give reasons why further assistance should be granted.
3. Special cases may be referred to the executive committee, with power to act.
4. Method of determining apportionments for the Minimum Salary Plan and Sustentation: All churches shall be apportioned their fair share for the minimum salary and sustentation fund budget according to the Conference-approved formula.
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MISSIONS (Par. 1358-1370)
1. It is recommended that there be created a corporation* of the new United Conference of the Ohio West Area of The United Methodist Church whose purpose shall be to establish and do all things necessary to implement a plan for lending monies to local United Methodist Churches as part of the mission and church extension program and to receive or borrow monies from individuals and/or organizations, issuing interest bearing notes, bonds, or other evidence of indebtedness therefor. Mr. Charles Farthing, Mr. Charles Redmond, and Mr. Lloyd Fisher, upon favorable vote of the Plan and Basis of Union by the four con- ferences of the Ohio West Area, are hereby directed to be the incor- porators to constitute a new corporation and do all things necessary to establish the same on behalf of the new conference.
2. The budget for 1970 shall include:
a. Conference Advance specials or equivalent in former EUB Con- ferences.
b. General Advance specials or equivalent in former EUB Conferences.
c. Current expense budget for Board of Missions operations.
3. Pursuant to Paragraph 1358 of the Discipline, the new Board of Missions shall be constituted with election for two years with the following from each district: one minister, one layman, one District Missionary Secretary plus five members at large nominated by the nominating committee in consultation with the cabinet. All district superintendents shall be mem- bers of the Board.
Sub-committees shall include Conference Advance, General Advance, Spe- cialized Ministries, Church Extension and such other committees as shall be necessary.
Membership of the Board shall be utilized to constitute the committee, providing additional personnel outside the Board. All committees to be nominated shall be constituted by the Board of Missions.
Sub-committees will include one minister and one layman from each district. There will be 1/3 former E.U.B. members on the Board and 2/3 from former Methodist members in initial constitution of the Board.
4. All church extension projects, mergers, relocations during this interim period (January 21, 1969 to June 15, 1970) shall be presented to the cabinet in consultation with Dr. Harold Kellogg, Director of Church Extension for the Ohio West Area, for their judgment.
*See Corporate Structure section in this PLAN and BASIS of UNION.
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NOMINATIONS
1. Representation on all boards, committees, commissions and councils of the merged conference shall be on the basis of 2/3 former Methodist and 1/3 former Evangelical United Brethren.
2. Chairmanships of all boards, committees, commissions and councils shall be on the basis of 2/3 former Methodist and 1/3 former Evangelical United Brethren representation.
3. Proposed chairmanships of boards, committees, commissions and councils:
BOARDS
1. Conference Trustees (M)*
2. Education (M)
3. Evangelism (EUB) **
4. Health and Welfare Ministries (M)
5. Laity (M)
6. Ministry (EUB)
7. Pensions (M)
8. Christian Social Concerns (M)
9. Missions (EUB)
COMMISSIONS
1. Enlistments for Church Occupa- tions (EUB)
2. Conference Expense (M)
3. Ecumenical Affairs (EUB)
4. Archives and History (M)
5. Hospitalization (EUB)
6. Minimum and Basic Salary (M)
7. Town and Country (EUB)
8. World Service and Finance (M)
9. Worship (M)
10. Public Relations and United Methodist Information (M)
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
1. Annual Conference Pro- gram (M)
2. Inter-Denominational Headquarters (M)
3. Investigation (Judiciary Matters) (EUB)
4. Nominations (M)
5. Annual Conference Pages (EUB)
6. Parsonage Study (M)
7. Annual Conference Ushers (M)
8. Committee on Lay Workers (M)
9. Annual Conference Rules (EUB)
COUNCILS
1. Conference Program Council (M)
2. Ohio Council of Churches Repre- sentatives (EUB)
3. Alcohol Problems (M)
4. Youth Ministry (either EUB or M)
5. Associate Members, Lay Pastors, Lay Workers (M)
*Indicates former member of the Methodist Conference.
#*Indicates former member of an Evangelical United Brethren Conference.
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4. a. The tenure of office on any Conference board, commission, committee, or council shall be on the basis of one quadrennium. No person shall serve longer on a board, etc., than two consecutive quadrenniums or parts thereof. This tenure rule would not prevent change of persons during the quadrennium. No persons shall serve on more than three Conference boards, commissions, committees or councils simultane- ously.
b. The above rules do not apply to the following groups: Women's Society of Christian Service; United Methodist Youth Fellowship; Conference Deaconess Board; Board of Pensions; Board of Conference Trustees; institutional trustees and officers; Digest of Daily Journal Committee; assistants to Conference Treasurer; Conference Statistician; Conference Secretary, and Committees on Agenda, Floor Privilege and Courtesy.
5. The term of office for chairmen, vice-chairmen, secretary, treasurer, etc., of the various Conference boards, commissions, committees and councils (except those listed in 4b above) shall be for two years with a second consecutive term permissible.
PENSIONS (Par. 1380-1383)
(A) PENSION ANNUITY RATES - ASSETS - LIABILITIES It is recommended-
(1) THAT the Conference adopt the 5% (instead of 3%) assump- tion on projected income from the General Board of Pensions.
(2) THAT a $65.00 service annuity rate be provided for all prior service and that the payment be amortized over 30 years.
(3) THAT amounts necessary be provided to assure that no per- son on pension as of the date of the UNION will have his pension reduced BECAUSE OF THE UNION.
(4) THAT all future service under the Ministers Reserve Pension Fund be set at $65.00 service annuity rate.
(5) THAT any increase in annuity rate shall apply to both prior and future service in the same amount.
*(6) THAT the former EUB Conferences shall make a cash contri- bution toward the amount needed as a down payment in June 1970 to overcome the pension funding differential as determined by the Executive Committee of the Board of Pensions and ap- proved by the former EUB Councils of Administration. Any unfunded differential (then) is to be amortized by the new conference over a thirty year period.
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(7) THUS the apportionment to all churches in the successor United Conference will be on the same formula figure.
(8) FURTHER it is anticipated
(a) that the total pension annuity program shall be operated under the M.R.P.F. (Ministers Reserve Pension Fund) system;
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