Meetings for Worship. Sunday and midweek meetings for instruction, worship, evangelism, and discipleship are held as scheduled. Special meetings and changes of schedule should be given sufficient announcement.

Business Meetings. Regularly scheduled business sessions occur at intervals of not more than three months. If business must be continued at the call of the clerk, it shall be so announced in a regular Sunday morning meeting for worship prior to the session. A special business session may be called if it seems necessary in the judgment of the presiding clerk or the pastor and if similar provision is made for its advertisement. All active members are encouraged to participate in speaking to business and making decisions in these business meetings.

Responsibilities of the Local Church. The local church is a general policy-making body. It has authority to call and contract pastoral services; to adopt the annual budget; to accept and dismiss members; to hold and administer real estate and other property for the use of the church; to initiate and sponsor an extension church or mission congregation (Opening/Closing Churches); to consider, adopt, and carry out measures in the interest of the church and of the community at large.

Incorporation. Local churches are encouraged to secure legal incorporation, in harmony with the Faith and Practice of Northwest Yearly Meeting and state laws (Incorporation).

Representation in the Area. Each church appoints annually one of its members to serve on the Area Nominating Committee. If an Area fails to appoint a Nominating Committee, appointments to Yearly Meeting boards will be made by the boards themselves. Geographic representation will be considered to the degree possible.

Representation in the Yearly Meeting Sessions. The local church makes annual appointments to the Council of Representatives. It may appoint one person for each fifty resident active members or major fraction thereof as of the previous Yearly Meeting statistical report. Each local church is entitled to at least two representatives; each extension church is entitled to one. If the church has an Administrative Committee, at least one of these representatives shall serve on it. An additional representative may be appointed by a mission point at the discretion of the mother church or the Yearly Meeting. Alternates may be appointed at the discretion of the church (see Council of Representatives).