How conference works

The mechanics

Not a specific item of business — the standing machinery: who’s a member and who votes, the consent agenda, resolutions, and motions from the floor.

• What Is Holy Conferencing?

  Why Annual Conference is not just a business meeting but a Wesleyan means of grace — and what that practice asks of each of us.

• History of the North Georgia Conference

  From Wesley's Georgia to the One Georgia Area — Asbury's first 1788 conference, the 1866 division, and who leads North Georgia now.

• Making a motion

  What to say when you want to speak, change, pause, or object — and whether it needs a second, is debatable, or takes two-thirds.

• The Consent Agenda

  How routine reports are adopted without floor debate — and how any member can pull an item out.

• Resolutions

  How the conference speaks — the structure of a resolution and how it reaches the floor.

• Who is a member of Annual Conference

  Clergy and lay members, the voting body, and the delegate elections that run through the session.