2016 Wesleyan Discipline:Sunday school, local: Branch

655

(15) To petition the district board of administration for the incorporation of the local church when it is deemed necessary as set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4000, and to authorize the local board of administration to incorporate the church when such incorporation has been approved by the district board of administration (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1233:33).

782

(6) To direct the church in its evangelistic outreach, seeking to win its community to Christ; to establish an extension department of spiritual formation (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:880:15; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:913); to recommend to the local church conference the establishment and operation of a mission, a branch Sunday school, a branch small group Bible study, or a developing church, as it deems necessary and proper (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:537; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:655:16).

880

(15) To conduct extension classes, small group Bible studies, and branch Sunday schools when such are properly authorized (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:655:16; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:782:6).