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thodist churches as of 2014 update the ueem has around 1 200 members and 30 ministers 220 germany edit further information in german evangelisch methodistische kirche de methodist chapel at the foot of the achalm mountain baden württemberg in germany switzerland and austria evangelisch methodistische kirche is the name of the united methodist church the german part of the church had about 52 031 members in 2015 update 187 members are organized into three annual conferences north east and south 187 all three annual conferences belong to the germany central conference 222 methodism is most prevalent in southern saxony and around stuttgart citation needed a methodist missionary returning from britain introduced british methodism to germany in 1830 initially in the region of württemberg methodism was also spread in germany through the missionary work of the methodist episcopal church which began in 1849 in bremen soon spreading to saxony and other parts of germany other methodist missionaries of the evangelical association went near stuttgart württemberg in 1850 222 further methodist missionaries of the church of the united brethren in christ worked in franconia and other parts of germany from 1869 until 1905 223 therefore methodism has four roots in germany early opposition towards methodism was partly rooted in theological differences northern and eastern regions of germany were predominantly lutheran and reformed and methodists were dismissed as fanatics methodism was also hindered by its unfamiliar church structure connectionalism which was more centralised than the hierarchical polity in the lutheran and reformed churches after world war i the 1919 weimar constitution allowed methodists to worship freely and many new chapels were established in 1936 german methodists elected their first bishop 224 hungary edit the first methodist mission in hungary was established in november 1898 in bácska by robert möller a methodist pastor from vienna 225 in 1905 a methodist mission was established also in budapest in 1974 a group later known as the hungarian evangelical fellowship seceded from the hungarian methodist church over the question of interference by the communist state as of 2017 update the united methodist church in hungary known locally as the hungarian methodist church hungarian magyarországi metodista egyház had 453 professing members in 30 congregations 226 it runs two student homes two homes for the elderly the forray methodist high school the wesley scouts and the methodist library and archives 227 the church has a special ministry among the roma 228 229 the seceding hungarian evangelical fellowship magyarországi evangéliumi testvérközösség also remains methodist in its organisation and theology it has eight full congregations and several mission groups and runs a range of charitable organisations hostels and soup kitchens for the homeless a non denominational theological college 230 a dozen schools of various kinds and four old people s homes today there are a dozen methodist wesleyan churches and mission organisations in hungary but all methodist churches lost official church status under new legislation passed in 2011 when the number of officially recognized churches in the country fell to 14 231 however the list of recognized churches was lengthened to 32 at the end of february 2012 232 this gave recognition to the hungarian methodist church and the salvation army which was banned in hungary in 1949 but had returned in 1990 but not to the hungarian evangelical fellowship the legislation has been strongly criticised by the venice commission of the council of europe as discriminatory 233 the hungarian methodist church the salvation army and the church of the nazarene and other wesleyan groups formed the wesley theological alliance for theological and publishing purposes in 1998 234 today the alliance has 10 wesleyan member churches and organisations the hungarian evangelical fellowship does not belong to it and has its own publishing arm 235 russia edit the methodist church established several strongholds in russia saint petersburg in the west and the vladivostok region in the east with large methodist centres in moscow and ekaterinburg former sverdlovsk methodists began their work in the west among swedish immigrants in 1881 and started their work in the east in 1910 236 on 26 june 2009 methodists celebrated the 120th year since methodism arrived in czarist russia by erecting a new methodist centre in saint petersburg 236 a methodist presence was continued in russia for 14 years after the russian revolution of 1917 through the efforts of deaconess anna eklund 237 in 1939 political antagonism stymied the work of the church and deaconess anna eklund was coerced to return to her native finland 236 after 1989 the soviet union allowed greatly increased religious freedoms 238 and this continued after the ussr s collapse in 1991 during the 1990s methodism experienced a powerful wave of revival in the nation 236 three sites in particular carried the torch samara moscow and ekaterinburg as of 2011 update the united methodist church in eurasia comprised 116 congregations each with a native pastor there are currently 48 students enrolled in residential and extension degree programs at the united methodist seminary in moscow 236 caribbean edit methodism came to the caribbean in 1760 when the planter lawyer and speaker of the antiguan house of assembly nathaniel gilbert c 1719 1774 returned to his sugar estate home in antigua 239 a methodist revival spread in the british west indies due to the work of british missionaries 240 missionaries established societies which would later become the methodist church in the caribbean and the americas mcca the mcca has about 62 000 members in over 700 congregations ministered by 168 pastors 240 they have a strong and active partnership with united methodist church usa and united church of canada there are smaller methodist denominations such as methodist church of the bahamas that have seceded from the parent church 241 antigua edit baxter memorial church in english harbour the story is often told that in 1755 nathaniel gilbert while convalescing read a treatise of john wesley an appeal to men of reason and religion sent to him by his brother francis as a result of having read this book gilbert two years later journeyed to england with three of his slaves and there in a drawing room meeting arranged in wandsworth on 15 january 1759 met the preacher john wesley he returned to the caribbean that same year and on his subsequent return began to preach to his slaves in antigua 239 when gilbert died in 1774 his work in antigua was continued by his brother francis gilbert to approximately 200 methodists however within a year francis took ill and returned to britain and the work was carried on by sophia campbell a negress and mary alley a mulatto two devoted women who kept the flock together with class and prayer meetings as well as they could 240 on 2 april 1778 john baxter a local preacher and skilled shipwright from chatham in kent england landed at english harbour in antigua now called nelson s dockyard where he was offered a post at the naval dockyard baxter was a methodist and had heard of the work of the gilberts and their need for a new preacher he began preaching and meeting with the methodist leaders and within a year the methodist community had grown to 600 persons by 1783 the first methodist chapel was built in antigua with john baxter as the local preacher its wooden structure seating some 2 000 people 242 st barts edit in 1785 william turton 1761 1817 a barbadian son of a planter met john baxter in antigua and later as layman assisted in the methodist work in the swedish colony of st bartholomew from 1796 239 in 1786 the missionary endeavour in the caribbean was officially recognized by the methodist conference in england and that same year thomas coke having been made superintendent of the church two years previously in america by wesley was travelling to nova scotia but weather forced his ship to antigua 243 244 245 jamaica edit in 1818 edward fraser 1798 aft 1850 a privileged barbadian slave moved to bermuda and subsequently met the new minister james dunbar the nova scotia methodist minister noted young fraser s sincerity and commitment to his congregation and encouraged him by appointing him as assistant by 1827 fraser assisted in building a new chapel he was later freed and admitted to the methodist ministry to serve in antigua and jamaica 239 barbados edit following william j shrewsbury s preaching in the 1820s sarah ann gill 1779 1866 a free born black woman used civil disobedience in an attempt to thwart magistrate rulings that prevented parishioners holding prayer meetings in hopes of building a new chapel she paid an extraordinary 1 700 0s 0d and ended up having militia appointed by the governor to protect her home from demolition 246 in 1884 an attempt was made at autonomy with the formation of two west indian conferences however by 1903 the venture had failed it was not until the 1960s that another attempt was made at autonomy this second attempt resulted in the emergence of the methodist church in the caribbean and the americas in may 1967 240 francis godson 1864 1953 a methodist minister who having served briefly in several of the caribbean islands eventually immersed himself in helping those in hardship of the first world war in barbados he was later appointed to the legislative council of barbados and fought for the rights of pensioners he was later followed by renowned barbadian augustus rawle parkinson 1864 1932 247 who also was the first principal of the wesley hall school bridgetown in barbados which celebrated its 125th anniversary in september 2009 239 in more recent times in barbados victor alphonso cooke born 1930 and lawrence vernon harcourt lewis born 1932 are strong influences on the methodist church on the island 239 their contemporary and late member of the dalkeith methodist church was the former secretary of the university of the west indies consultant of the canadian training aid programme and a man of letters francis woodbine blackman 1922 2010 it was his research and published works that enlightened much of this information on caribbean methodism 248 249 africa edit most methodist denominations in africa follow the british methodist tradition and see the methodist church of great britain as their mother church originally modelled on the british structure since independence most of these churches have adopted an episcopal model of church governance nigeria edit the nigerian methodist church is one of the largest methodist denominations in the world and one of the largest christian churches in nigeria with around two million members in 2000 congregations 250 it has seen exponential growth since the turn of the millennium 251 christianity was established in nigeria with the arrival in 1842 of a wesleyan methodist missionary 250 he had come in response to the request for missionaries by the ex slaves who returned to nigeria from sierra leone from the mission stations established in badagry and abeokuta the methodist church spread to various parts of the country west of the river niger and part of the north in 1893 missionaries of the primitive methodist church arrived from fernando po an island off the southern coast of nigeria from there the methodist church spread to other parts of the country east of the river niger and also to parts of the north the church west of the river niger and part of the north was known as the western nigeria district and east of the niger and another part of the north as the eastern nigeria district both existed independently of each other until 1962 when they constituted the conference of methodist church nigeria the conference is composed of seven districts the church has continued to spread into new areas and has established a department for evangelism and appointed a director of evangelism an episcopal system of church governance adopted in 1976 was not fully accepted by all sections of the church until the two sides came together and resolved to end the disagreement a new constitution was ratified in 1990 the system is still episcopal but the points which caused discontent were amended to be acceptable to both sides today the nigerian methodist church has a prelate eight archbishops and 44 bishops 250 ghana edit main article methodist church ghana methodist bishops at a church conference in winneba 2008 methodist church ghana is one of the largest methodist denominations with around 800 000 members in 2 905 congregations ministered by 700 pastors 252 it has fraternal links with the british methodist and united methodist churches worldwide methodism in ghana came into existence as a result of the missionary activities of the wesleyan methodist church inaugurated with the arrival of joseph rhodes dunwell to the gold coast in 1835 253 like the mother church the methodist church in ghana was established by people of protestant background roman catholic and anglican missionaries came to the gold coast from the 15th century a school was established in cape coast by the anglicans during the time of philip quaque a ghanaian priest those who came out of this school had bible copies and study supplied by the society for the propagation of christian knowledge a member of the resulting bible study groups william de graft requested bibles through captain potter of the ship congo not only were bibles sent but also a methodist missionary in the first eight years of the church s life 11 out of 21 missionaries who worked in the gold coast died thomas birch freeman who arrived at the gold coast in 1838 was a pioneer of missionary expansion between 1838 and 1857 he carried methodism from the coastal areas to kumasi in the asante hinterland of the gold coast he also established methodist societies in badagry and abeokuta in nigeria with the assistance of william de graft 254 by 1854 the church was organized into circuits constituting a district with t b freeman as chairman freeman was replaced in 1856 by william west the district was divided and extended to include areas in the then gold coast and nigeria by the synod in 1878 a move confirmed at the british conference the districts were gold coast district with t r picot as chairman and yoruba and popo district with john milum as chairman methodist evangelisation of northern gold coast began in 1910 after a long period of conflict with the colonial government missionary work was established in 1955 paul adu was the first indigenous missionary to northern gold coast 255 in july 1961 the methodist church in ghana became autonomous and was called the methodist church ghana based on a deed of foundation part of the church s constitution and standing orders 252 southern africa edit main article methodist church of southern africa a methodist chapel in leliefontein northern cape sou...