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William Hammet and John Clark were the first missionaries; in 1884, the
first West Indian Conference was established, but it reverted to British
supervision when the Conference failed in 1904 due to economic
hardships and a lack of trained leadership; in 1949, the Provincial
Synod of the Western Area was established as a consultative body
among Methodist churches in the Caribbean; in 1967, the MCCA was
officially created, comprised of eight districts: Jamaica, Leeward Islands,
South Caribbean, Guyana, Haiti, Belize-Honduras, Panama-Costa Rica,
and the Bahamas-Turks and Caicos Islands, with headquarters in St.
John’s, Antigua, West Indies)
B2.32013 Primitive Methodist Church (1811, 1829; Wilkes-Barre, PA; originally
known as the Society of the Primitive Methodists; has mission work in
Guatemala and Spain)
B2.32014 United Wesleyan Methodist Church of America (1905, New York City,
NY; was formed among Afro-American immigrants from the British West
Indies who wanted to conserve their West Indian cultural traditions in
the USA; fraternal relations are maintained with the Methodist Church
in the Caribbean and the Americas)
B2.3202 United Methodist Church (1784, Methodist Episcopal Church, MEC,
was formed among Methodist congregations that became independent of
the Anglican Church following the American Revolutionary War; in 1844,
the MEC divided into two branches over issues that led to the Civil War:
Methodist Episcopal Church-South and Methodist Episcopal Church-
North; the two branches reunited in 1939 and other Methodist churches
joined them in 1968 to form the United Methodist Church)
B2.32021 Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society (1819; now called the
Board of Global Missions of the United Methodist Church; has mission
work in Latin America)
B2.3203 African Methodist Episcopal Church (1784, Nashville, TN; Afro-
Americans separated from the Methodist Episcopal Church due to
clashes with the dominant White leadership; has mission work in
Bermuda, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Virgin Islands, Windward
Islands, Guyana and Surinam)
B2.3204 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1801, Charlotte, NC; an
Afro-American denomination)
B2.3205 Church of the United Brethren in Christ (1841, Huntington, IN;
German roots with its earliest concentration in Maryland, Virginia and
eastern Pennsylvania; previously known as the United Brethren in Christ
until 1946, but separated from this body when they merged with the
Evangelical Church to form the Evangelical United Brethren, which in
turn merged with the Methodist Church in 1968 to form the United
Methodist Church; has mission work in Jamaica, Honduras and
Nicaragua)
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