¶ 540 PROVISIONAL GENERAL CONFERENCE
Requirements for forming a provisional General conference are found in ¶221 and those for a general conference in ¶222.
To prepare for a new provisional general conference, the Bishop of the Free Methodist Church in Canada shall form a provisional general conference task force of the superintendents, lay representatives from the participating annual conferences and the global missions director to prepare a provisional general conference proposal. It shall be presented to the participating annual conferences for adoption in principle
The Board of Administration of the Free Methodist Church in Canada shall elect an ordained minister(s) who is a national citizen of the country of the provisional general conference as a suffragan bishop(s) from the nominee(s) presented by the annual conferences of that country. The suffragan bishop(s) oversees his/her provisional general conference under the supervision and counsel of the Bishop of the Free Methodist Church in Canada.
The size and composition of the provisional general conference at and its Board of Administration shall be shall be recommended by the provisional general conference task force and be approved by the Board of Administration of the Free Methodist Church in Canada.
