Free Methodist Church
The Free Methodist Church (FMC) is a Methodist Christian denomination within the holiness movement, based in the United States. It is evangelical in nature and is Wesleyan–Arminian in theology.
| Free Methodist Church | |
|---|---|
Emblem of the Free Methodist Church USA | |
| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | Holiness |
| Polity | Modified episcopacy |
| Associations | Christian Holiness Partnership; Christian Churches Together; National Association of Evangelicals; Wesleyan Holiness Consortium; World Methodist Council |
| Region | Worldwide: divided into 13 General Conferences |
| Founder | Benjamin Titus Roberts |
| Origin | 1860 Pekin, New York |
| Separated from | Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Separations | 1932 - Reformed Free Methodist Church 1955 - United Holiness Church (now the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches) 1963 - Evangelical Wesleyan Church 1973 - Fellowship of Independent Methodist Churches |
| Congregations | 856 in the United States (average congregation size: 77) |
| Members | 1,200,797 (68,356 in the United States) |
| Official website | fmcusa.org |
The Free Methodist Church has members in over 100 countries, with 62,516 members in the United States and 1,547,820 members worldwide. The Light & Life Magazine is their official publication. The Free Methodist Church World Ministries Center is in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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