The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline

Churches Voted Into Conferences

In the month of September, 1862, the Michigan Conference held its first annual session in Monterey. Here, for the first time in our history, was presented the idea of churches being received by vote into conferences, as members are voted into churches. Seventeen churches in the State had already been organized, and these were by vote taken into the conference; and all members of those churches who were present were accepted, by vote, as delegates. COOD 134.4