About the Free Methodist Church
The mission of the Free Methodist Church is to make known to all people everywhere God’s call to wholeness through forgiveness and holiness in Jesus Christ, and to invite into membership and to equip for ministry all who respond in faith.
In the mid-1800s, influenced by the holiness movement, Benjamin Titus Roberts and others involved with the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church encouraged a return to primitive Methodism and the doctrine of entire sanctification. They were expelled from the Methodist Episcopal Church and were unable to join any other Methodist body. Therefore they began the Free Methodist Church on August 23, 1860.
In 2005 there were approximately 1,000 churches, fellowships and new church plants with 76,000 members in the United States and 729,500 members worldwide.
Read more about the Free Methodist Church today at www.freemethodistchurch.org.