http://archives.umc.org/interior_judicial.asp?mid=263&JDID=1281&JDMOD=VWD&SN=1100&EN=1189
An oral question of law was given during a plenary session of Mississippi Conference about a provision that allows the conference to respond to emergency financial situations between sessions of conference.
Despite taking no jurisdiction, the Council took the time to try to state the problems and describe what the conference wanted to do before vacating the bishop’s ruling.
Those who like such intricacies surrounding church finance, this decision appears to be down their alley.
Mississippi has had Katrina in 2005 and tornadoes this summer which might just trigger a financial crisis. It is important that conferences have a way to respond. Even if such catastrophes are not identified as the emergencies which drop conference receipts below a certain percentage level, good procedures would be wise to have in place.
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