Free Methodist Church

Free Methodist Church
Free Methodist Church
	Emblem of the Free Methodist Church USA
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Holiness
Polity	Modified episcopacy
Associations	Global Wesleyan Alliance;; Christian Holiness Partnership;; Christian Churches Together;; Wesleyan Holiness Consortium;; World Methodist Council;; National Association of Evangelicals
Region	Worldwide: divided into 13 General Conferences
Founder	Benjamin Titus Roberts
Origin	1860 ; Pekin, New York
Separated from	Methodist Episcopal Church
Separations	1881 - Vanguard Mission; 1882 - Pentecost Bands; 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 (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.^[5]

The Free Methodist Church has members in over 100 countries, with 62,516 members in the United States and 1,547,820 members worldwide.^[6] The Light & Life Magazine is their official publication.^[7] The Free Methodist Church World Ministries Center is in Indianapolis, Indiana.

^ ^a ^b Bundy, David; Hammond, Geordan; Han, David Sang-Ehil (March 4, 2022). Holiness and Pentecostal Movements: Intertwined Pasts, Presents, and Futures. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-09415-1. Defections from the Methodist Episcopal Church were many; those from the Free Methodist Church included the Vanguard Mission (1881) and Pentecost Bands (1882).
^ Jones, Charles Edwin (1974). A guide to the study of the holiness movement. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810807037.
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference Melton2009 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cooney, Dudley Levistone (2001). The Methodists in Ireland: A Short History. Columba Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-85607-335-6.
^ 2019 Book of Discipline. Free Methodist Church. 2019. p. 9.
^ "Free Methodist Church Official Website".
^ "Light + Life Magazine".

[BundyHammond2022-1] Bundy, David; Hammond, Geordan; Han, David Sang-Ehil (March 4, 2022). Holiness and Pentecostal Movements: Intertwined Pasts, Presents, and Futures. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-09415-1. Defections from the Methodist Episcopal Church were many; those from the Free Methodist Church included the Vanguard Mission (1881) and Pentecost Bands (1882).

[Jones1974-2] Jones, Charles Edwin (1974). A guide to the study of the holiness movement. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810807037.

[Melton2009-3] Cite error: The named reference Melton2009 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Cooney2001-4] Cooney, Dudley Levistone (2001). The Methodists in Ireland: A Short History. Columba Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-85607-335-6.

[07BOD-5] 2019 Book of Discipline. Free Methodist Church. 2019. p. 9.

[6] "Free Methodist Church Official Website".

[7] "Light + Life Magazine".

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