The General Conference, in several Methodist denominations, is the top legislative body for all matters within the denomination. With regard to the membership...

Wesleyan Church. There are several kinds of conferences in Methodism: General Conference is the highest deliberative body for the United Methodist Church...

America from 1860 to 2002 General Conference (Methodism), the top legislative body in many Methodist denominations General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists...

ministry of that parish church. Conferences in Methodism Annual conferences within Methodism General Conference (Methodism) The Discipline of the Allegheny...

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings...

presided over by a District Superintendent. Conferences in Methodism Annual conference General Conference (Methodism) The Discipline of the Evangelical Wesleyan...

to hear the voice of God in our Scriptures". In the same year, the General Conference voted to "appoint a sexual ethics discernment committee to make recommendations...

characteristic of the connexional (connectional) system of government in Methodism. Annual conferences are composed primarily of the clergy members and a lay member...

The history of Methodism in the United States dates back to the mid-18th century with the ministries of early Methodist preachers such as Laurence Coughlan...

Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church...