The Commission on Archives & History is charged with a number of Discipline-mandated duties. Among these are:

• to preserve and share the historically significant records of the annual conference and its agencies, including data relating to the origin and history of the conference and its antecedents
• to encourage and assist local churches in preserving their records, compiling their histories, and celebrating their heritage
• to engage with other Wesleyan, Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren-related denominations in lifting up our joint heritage
• to work with ethnic congregations of the conference and its antecedents to develop and preserve the historical records of those congregations

The Commission has established a Historical Society for the California-Pacific Conference, per the guidelines in the Book of Discipline 2016 (par 641). The mission of the Historical Society is to promote interest in the study and preservation of the history of the conference and its antecedents.