RELIGION / Christianity / Methodist

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This chapter examines the intergenerational legacy of the Messelaar family within the socio-religious and leadership history of the Griqua people, with particular emphasis on the role of the Methodist Church in Southern Africa. Using a qualitative case study methodology grounded in indigenous studies, religious sociology, and historical analysis, the chapter explores how faith-based leadership traditions have shaped…

Reference · Wikidata

group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrines and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's brother Charles Wesley were also significant early leaders in the movement. They were named Methodists for "the methodical way in which they carried out their Christian faith". Methodism originated as a revival movemen…

Book · DOAB

In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her new husband, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville. For the next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband’s work at two mission houses, Norway House and then Berens River. Unprepared for the difficult conditions and the “eight months long” winter, and unimpressed with “eating fish twenty-one times …

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

Description from "Contents to LEM's photographic materials": "Sedgewick, United Methodist Church & window"