2016 Wesleyan Discipline: 518:1–4
From Wesleyan Discipline
518
- (1) Twenty-five or more persons who are members or are approved and ready to be received as members when the organization shall be effected.
- (2) Effective evangelism and a record of new converts and/or believers’ baptisms incorporated into the church.
- (3) An intentional investment of financial and human resources into community and global needs.
- (4) A reasonable degree of financial stability, including the meeting of such obligations as it may have to the General Church and the district.