Southern Methodist Church

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Southern Methodist Church
Classification	Methodist
Orientation	Holiness movement
Theology	Wesleyan
Origin	1940
Separated from	Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1940)
Congregations	73
Members	3,200
Official website	thesmc.org

The Southern Methodist Church is a Methodist denomination of Protestant Christianity. The church maintains headquarters in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

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 to form the Methodist Church.

In 2017, the Southern Methodist Church had approximately 85 churches and 3,200 members.^[1]^[2] Over 50% of the churches (47) are located in South Carolina.^[3] 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."^[4]

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.^[5] The denomination also supports foreign missionaries. The Woman's Missionary Society (WMS), 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.

Notes

^ "2008 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches". The National Council of Churches. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
^ "Locations".
^ "Eastern Churches".
^ Southern Methodist Church: About us
^ Peterson's Colleges in the South. Peterson's. 2009. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-7689-2695-8.

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Derivatives

Evangelical Association (1800)
African Methodist Episcopal Church (1816)
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1821)
Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada (1828)
Methodist Protestant Church (1828)
Christian Union (1864)
Church of God (Holiness) (1883)
Christ's Sanctified Holy Church (1892)
Church of the Nazarene (1895)
Pilgrim Holiness Church (1897)
Pentecostal Holiness Church of North Carolina (1897)
Lumber River Conference of the Holiness Methodist Church (1900)
Kentucky Mountain Holiness Association (1925)

Republican Methodist Church (1792)	Christian Connection (1810) Congregational Christian Churches (1931) Conservative Congregational Christian Conference (1948) National Association of Congregational Christian Churches (1955) United Church of Christ (1957)
Wesleyan Methodist Church (1841)	Church of Daniel's Band (1893) Fire-Baptized Holiness Church (1896) Missionary Methodist Church (1913) Bible Methodist Connection of Churches (1967) Bible Methodist Connection of Tennessee (1968) Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection (1968)
Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1844)	Congregational Methodist Church (1852) Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (1870) New Congregational Methodist Church (1881) People's Methodist Church (1938) Southern Methodist Church (1940)
Free Methodist Church (1860)	Reformed Free Methodist Church (1932) United Holiness Church (1955) Evangelical Wesleyan Church (1963)

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