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A proposed petition to the 2008 General Conference would be to add the text shown in red below:
 
2004 Discipline of the United Methodist Church, Para 602.4. The lay membership of the annual conference shall consist of a professing member elected by each charge, diaconal ministers, deaconesses, home missioners, the conference president of United Methodist Women, the conference president of United Methodist Men, the conference lay leader, district lay leaders, the conference scouting coordinator, the president or equivalent officer of the conference young adult organization, the president of the conference youth organization, the chair of the annual conference college student organization, one young person between the ages of twelve and seventeen and one young person between the ages of eighteen and thirty from each district to be selected in such a manner as may be determined by the annual conference, and all former Conference Lay Leaders who reside within the conference where they served and are active members of a United Methodist Church within the conference . If the lay membership should number less than the clergy members of the annual conference, the annual conference shall, by its own formula, provide for the election of additional lay members to equalize lay and clergy membership of the annual conference.
 
After long years of service within the active life of the annual conference, usually culminated with a tenure as Conference Lay Leader, we need to retain this experience and knowledge within the annual conference of these individuals who have served in this office.
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