Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.524

Sec. 4. The persons desiring to organize such church shall execute and acknowledge, before any persons authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, articles of association in writing, whereby they shall agree to organize a church which shall be governed by the discipline, rules and uses of the United Missionary church. To such articles of association there shall be attached a certificate by the district superintendent of the district in which said church is to be located, that said church was organized by the consent of said district superintendent.