Evangelicals would have experiences as district superintendents, making them more likely to get elected. That voice would be small at first, but as the conference grew, the voice would grow. The Discipline Calls for financial resources from the Board of Global Ministries to help new conferences. A larger number of churches, even though spread across the West, would make appointments easier. Our modern technology of faxes and e-mail can bridge the distances.
Pastors can transfer conferences.
Once the circuit riders went West to claim this area for Scriptural holiness. There was a time when we were building a new church a day. I would issue the call for a missionary conference in the West to bring back Wesleyan theology and doctrine. If it is of God, it cannot be stopped. Robert L. Kuyper is the editor of the Transforming Congregations newsletter, where this article first appeared.