John Wesley In 1729, a small group of students at Oxford University in England formed a Holy Club, to "win fellow students to a studious and virtuous life and to obtain a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures in the original tongues." The best known members of this club were John and Charles Wesley. Wesley taught a process of sanctification, to love God with all one's heart, mind, soul and strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself. Holiness of heart had to find fruit in outward works and social involvement. By 1739, Wesley and others were preaching to huge, open-air meetings. Wesley was asked by eight or ten people to spend some time with them in prayer and discussion, which began the Methodist system of class meetings. When the people of this movement, who were changed by it, were not acceptable to the established church, the Methodist Church was the result. "Methodism is Christianity in earnest" Wesley said. "A Methodist is one who lives according to the method laid down in the Bible." 

GENERAL CONFERENCE - Meets every four (4) years, makes laws, church policy; approves budget. Our supreme body also elects both: BOARD OF BISHOPS - Which meets twice a year and oversees the Connection between the General Conferences and... GENERAL OFFICERS - Who oversee the operation of the Departments of the Connection and ... 

I. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body or parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the maker and preserver of all things, visible, and invisible. And in the unity of this Godhead there are three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity--the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.