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History of the United Methodist Church

The United Methodist Church has a distinguished heritage which begins with the lives and ministries of John Wesley and his brother Charles who were born in England in the early 1700s.  The brothers brought the Methodist movement to the colony of Georgia in March of 1736 as Church of England missionaries.  The United Methodist Church was created in 1968 with the union of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Today, the United Methodist Church has approximately 11 million members world-wide with 34,892 local churches in the United States and 6,934 organized churches outside of the United States.  It is the third largest religious body in the United States of America.

Sources and related links
•A Brief Timeline of the United Methodist Church and its American Heritage
•History of the Church at umc.org
•Quick Facts at umc.org

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