2016 Wesleyan Discipline:782:6

(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).