2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1310:16

(16) To recommend that the district board of administration authorize the establishment of a mission (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:537), a developing church (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:510), a church (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:518), the reclassification of a church (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:518:7); and to preside over the organization of an established church or appoint a representative to do so (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:520), and to report the organization of new churches to the district board of administration and to the district conference (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:520:6).