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representatives of the missionary organizations embracing those
localities.

c. Occupancy of the field shall be determined by at least the
following characteristics:

1. The establishment of a regularly organized church.

The establishing of a Sunday school shall not be deemed
sufficient to meet the terms of this definition.

2. The appointment of a pastor who shall be expected to hold
services in the community at least once every two weeks.

3. The provision of church building and equipment within a
reasonable time adequate to the needs of the community at its
present stage of development.

The occupation of a field by any denomination after conference
and agreement shall give to that denomination the right to the
field and the responsibility for its Christian culture until
such changes in population shall make it desirable that it be
shared with one or more other denominations.

If the above conference shall fail to reach agreement, it shall
be the privilege of the aggrieved party to make appeal to its
respective board or society, which board or society shall
confer with the sister board or society concerned, and these
boards may then request the superintendents of the
denominations concerned for the field in question to make
personal investigation and to report their findings to their
respective boards. If they agree, the boards shall take action
in accordance therewith. If they disagree, the matter shall be
referred to the boards for such action as their wisdom may
determine, which action shall be communicated to the churches
concerned with whatever ecclesiastical or moral force their
decision may command.

SECOND. In communities already occupied by two or more
denominations, in case any church or mission station shall
consider itself aggrieved in its relations to sister churches,
the course of procedure outlined in Section I shall likewise be
followed.

There shall be friendly conference in the spirit of the Great
Head of the church and recourse be had, when necessary, to the
local or national missionary authorities, whose findings
properly communicated shall have behind them the moral force of
this Council.

Where an