AUBURN — A judge brokered guidelines Thursday for feuding founders of a Turner church to follow in an effort to settle their differences out of court.

Androscoggin County Superior Court Justice MaryGay Kennedy met behind closed doors with plaintiffs and defendants for roughly an hour before issuing an order based on a negotiated pact. In it, she directed 10 founding members of the Historic Seventh Day Bible Fellowship to meet on the morning of April 29 at the church.

At least six of the founders must attend the meeting to establish bylaws of the church property’s underlying corporation, Kennedy said. A majority of the founders at the meeting must agree on bylaw for it to pass.

One member of each side is expected to tap a neutral mediator selected to run the meeting. The founders attending the meeting would vote for one of the two candidates. The candidate with the most votes would serve as the meeting’s moderator, but would have no voting rights, Kennedy said.

Other members of the church’s congregation may attend the meeting but won’t be allowed to cast votes, Kennedy said.

The two factions have been sharing the building at 106 Weston Road, according to a scheduled outlined by Justice Kennedy in December 2010 during a court hearing. At that hearing, Kennedy got the two sides to agree to divide their time in the church to hold their respective religious services.

One faction of the church had filed a motion in Androscoggin County Superior Court in 2010 for a preliminary injunction allowing them access to the building. The other group had changed the locks and erected barricades.

Kennedy presided over a temporary solution in 2010 that included having the defendant share a key to the new locks with the plaintiff and devising a scheduled that would give both groups time to hold services.

The two factions met in November in Portland with a judge at a settlement conference in an effort to iron out their differences, but they failed to reach agreement.

If the April meeting fails to yield new bylaws, the parties are likely to end up back in court.