Denominations - Protestant

United Methodist Church

Mainline Protestant

Founded: 1968

Membership: 7,679,850 Clergy: 45,230 Congregations: 33,583 as of 2009

Colleges/Universities: The UMC has over 100 educational institutions in the U.S. Go to: https://www.gbhem.org/education/students/schools-colleges-universities/find-a-school/

Seminaries: See link above

Publications: Cokesbury, Abingdon Press

Website: http://www.umc.org/

Core Values: https://www.umc.org/en/who-we-are/ask-the-umc-faqs/beliefs-practices

Short History:

The United Methodist Church, the third-largest church in America, continues the Methodist movement founded in the 18th century in England by John Wesley. In 1968, a long process of consolidation of various Methodist churches in the United States culminated in the formation of the United Methodist Church by the merger of the Methodist Church (1939-1968) and the United Evangelical Brethren. -- ARDA.

In 2022, a splinter denomination, The Global Methodist Church, was founded due to schism in the United Methodist Church. Traditionalist congregations saw the church was most likely going to move away from traditional Methodism. These churches left the larger denomination and formed their own branch.

For more information go to https://www.resourceumc.org/en/agencies/archives-and-history

Local Churches near the LPTS Campus:

St Paul UMC, 2000 Douglass Blvd, Louisville, KY 40205

Crescent Hill UMC, 201 S Peterson Ave, Louisville , KY, 40206

Church locator: https://www.umc.org/en/find-a-church