This first took shape in a group set up by Charles Wesley in Oxford in the late s where students met to study together, to attend church and to bring practical help to poor families and prisoners. The last name stuck.
Their quest for peace with God took the Wesleys from Oxford to the new American colony of Georgia in Gradually, the Wesley brothers found their distinctive place within a broad, and sometimes fractious, coalition of evangelical leaders.
Their message — a gospel of grace and faith, open to all and leading to a transformed life — was expressed in preaching, personal testimony, popular pamphlets and lyrical hymns.
Working with a small band of colleagues, some fellow-clergy and some lay preachers, the Wesleys established a network of groups across the country. Although Charles Wesley was keen to keep the Methodists in the Church, a growing organisation with its own structure, leadership and activities sat uncomfortably within the Establishment.
There was no formal split; instead, Methodism gradually moved beyond the Church of England into its own independent identity. In the first half of the nineteenth century the Wesleyan movement grew rapidly.
By its centenary in the denomination claimed over , members and an institutional infrastructure to match: thousands of chapels, large and small; day and Sunday schools; a Missionary Society for work overseas; an array of publications; and an army of volunteers serving the Connexion as chapel trustees, local preachers, stewards, class leaders and Sunday school teachers.
Supervising this dynamic enterprise, managing extraordinary expansion and guiding an evolving structure required rare skills, and it is perhaps not surprising that differences of policy, personalities and priorities emerged. If you would like a reply by email, note that some email servers, such as public school accounts, are blocked from accepting messages from outside email servers or domains.
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Wesleyans were one of the first denominations in America to ordain women and were at the forefront of giving laity significant roles in church leadership.
The movement spread like wildfire as passionate Wesleyans began to radically apply their faith to every area of their life and communities, leading to reformations in education, culture, and governments. This distinct call to holiness and witness bound Wesleyans together as a diverse family of multiple nationalities, races, languages, and cultures. Members of The Wesleyan Church continue to be catalysts for individual and social transformation.
Learn more about our history in the Wesleyan archives. We believe God wills for people everywhere to know him and be made new in Christ. We believe that the purpose of the Church is to worship God in spirit and in truth, and to reach a lost and fallen world with the gospel of Jesus Christ through its worship, witness and loving deeds.
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