Southern Methodist Church
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Southern Methodist Church
OR:
Southern Methodist Church on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

The Southern Methodist Church is a conservative
Protestant Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...
Christian denomination with churches located in the southern part of the
United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
. The church maintains headquarters in
Orangeburg, South Carolina Orangeburg, also known as ''The Garden City'', is the principal city in and the county seat of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population of the city was 13,964 according to the 2010 United States Census and declined to 1 ...
. The church was formed in 1940 by conservative members of the former Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which in 1939 had reunited with the
Methodist Episcopal Church The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939. It was also the first religious denomination in the US to organize itself on a national basis. In ...
to form the Methodist Church, nearly 100 years after a split in 1844 that occurred due to divisions over slavery. In 2017, the Southern Methodist Church had approximately 85 churches and 3,200 members. Over 50% of the churches (47) are located in South Carolina. The denomination describes itself as seeking "to continue the doctrinal heritage of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and to spread the message of salvation and Biblical holiness that John Wesley preached."Southern Methodist Church: About us
/ref> The denomination maintains Southern Methodist College, a four-year Bible college with a Christian liberal arts and ministerial program, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, near the church's headquarters: https://smcollege.edu The denomination also supports foreign missionaries. The Woman's Missionary Society (WMS)(https://thesmc.org/womens-missionary-society/), the Epworth League children and youth program, and the Cartwright Men's Fellowship serve as specialized ministry and training efforts within the local churches and on the district and conference levels.


See also

*
Methodism Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's br ...
*
Southern Congregational Methodist Church The Southern Congregational Methodist Church (SCMC) is a Methodist denomination within the Wesleyan-Holiness movement of Christianity. It reported 29 churches located in the Southern United States as of 2007. Background The Southern Congregation ...
* Methodist Episcopal Church, South *
List of Methodist denominations This is a list of Methodist denominations (or list of Methodist connexions) including those affiliated with the World Methodist Council, as well as those which are not, the latter of which have been indicated with an asterisk. The denominations' ...


Notes


External links

*https://thesmc.org Southern Methodist Church] website History of Methodism in the United States Christian organizations established in 1940 Methodism in South Carolina Southern Evangelical denominations in North America Methodist denominations established in the 20th century Holiness denominations Conservatism in the United States 1940 establishments in South Carolina {{Methodist-stub