Assist and encourage each district to establish a Christian Action Committee; and to provide each district committee with information and material on current moral issues to be disseminated to each local church.
Section: General Government
340.6
Monitor moral issues of national and international importance and present the scriptural viewpoint.
341
The Committee on the Interests of the God-Called Evangelist shall be composed of the revivalism coordinator, who shall be ex-officio chairperson of the committee, plus four tenured evangelists and one pastor. The USA/Canada office director, in consultation with the revivalism coordinator shall submit a list of nominees for the committee to the Board of General Superintendents for approval and appointment. The committee or its designee shall personally interview commissioned evangelists who have been recommended by their respective district assemblies for “tenured evangelist” status. It shall also review the state of itinerant evangelism in the Church of the Nazarene and make recommendations concerning both revivals and evangelists to the appropriate committee of the General Board. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment from the Board of General Superintendents from recommendations received from the USA/Canada office director, in consultation with the revivalism coordinator. (317.7, 510.3)
342
Following the General Assembly, the Global Clergy Development director, in consultation with regional education coordinators, shall submit a list of nominees to serve on the International Course of Study Advisory Committee (ICOSAC). Nominees to the committee may include pastoral, administrative, educational, and lay representatives. Composition of ICOSAC should substantially represent the global church. The Board of General Superintendents shall appoint the International Course of Study Advisory Committee to serve for the quadrennium.
The International Course of Study Advisory Committee shall meet not fewer than once every two years at a location determined by the Global Clergy Development director (529.1–529.2, 529.5).
343
Nazarene youth ministry is organized globally under the auspices of Nazarene Youth International (NYI), under the NYI Charter, and the authority of the general superintendent in jurisdiction for NYI and General Board. The Global NYI shall be composed of members, local groups and district organizations, of Nazarene Youth International around the world. The Global NYI is governed by the NYI Charter and the NYI Global Ministry Plan approved by the General Assembly.
343.1
There shall be a quadrennial Global Nazarene Youth International (NYI) Convention which shall meet at a time set by the Board of General Superintendents, in consultation with the Global Council of Nazarene Youth International. The quadrennial convention shall be composed of members as are designated in the NYI Global Ministry Plan. (810)
343.2
The convention shall elect a Global NYI Council chair. The Global NYI vice chair is elected by the Global NYI Council at its first meeting during or following General Assembly. The Global NYI Council chair and vice chair shall be members ex-officio of the Global Nazarene Youth International (NYI) Council and shall serve without salary.
343.3
The Global Nazarene Youth International (NYI) Council shall be composed of the chair, vice chair, and representation from each region as designated by the NYI Global Ministry Plan. The director of Nazarene Youth International shall serve ex-officio on the council. The council shall be responsible to the General Board through the Global Mission Committee, and general superintendent in jurisdiction for NYI, and shall conduct itself under the authority of the NYI Charter and the NYI Global Ministry Plan. The Global NYI Council members shall hold office until the conclusion of the next General Assembly, when their successors are elected and qualified. (810)
343.4
The Global Nazarene Youth International (NYI) shall be represented on the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene by the Global NYI Council chair elected by the General Assembly from the nomination made by the Global NYI Council. (332.4, 333.3)
343.5
The Global Nazarene Youth International (NYI) shall be represented at the General Assembly by the Global NYI Council chair at the close of his or her term. (301)