bible missionary church inc. 2005 manual

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In 1992 two South Africans seeking affiliation with a Methodist Church for their pioneer work in that country found Bible Methodism, with its conservative lifestyle and emphasis on Holiness, to be the most compatible with their own beliefs.

Prominent among the leaders of the new Connection were Reverends H.

C. Van Wormer, T.

A. Robertson, J. B.

These men, along with a majority of the conference, opposed the merger on the grounds that they believed in a republican form of church governance and in Wesleyan Methodist standards of behavior, which they believed were being abandoned in the new church.

Legal technicalities forced them to add the words Original Allegheny Conference to their name.

Allegheny was one of the original conferences formed by the Wesleyan Methodist Church when it broke away from the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1843.

The Connection follows the traditional Holiness doctrine of the former Wesleyan Methodist Church.

It emphasizes the belief that the atonement in Christ provides for both the regeneration of sinners and the entire sanctification of believers.

The Connection serves as an agency of the cooperative endeavor.

There is a strong thrust in the foreign missions with work in Haiti, Ghana, and Peru.

Domestic missions are conducted among Native Americans of the northwestern United States and Canada, and among international university students in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Membership In 2006 there were 107 churches, 1,471 members, and 192 ministers.

Educational Facilities Northwest Indian Bible School, Alberton, Montana.

Bible Methodist Connection of Churches 1216 Taylor Rd., Glencoe, AL 35905 In 1968, while the Pilgrim Holiness Church and the Wesleyan Methodist Church were merging, the Ohio Wesleyan Connection of Churches met with the Alabama Bible Methodists to see if a union of these two like-minded groups could be effected.

In 1970 these two bodies merged to form the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches.

The connection is organized congregationally, specifically rejecting centralizing tendencies perceived to exist in the older Holiness bodies.

The connection has three conferences: the Heartland Conference (formerly the Ohio Conference), Alabama Conference, and Great Lakes Conference.

A conference assembly is held yearly and a general conference assembly meets every fourth year to shape church doctrine and polity.

The connection is a Holiness church whose doctrinal position is contained in the Twenty-two Articles of Religion derived from the Methodist Articles of Religion.

They affirm the inspiration and infallibility of Scripture: justification; sanctification, the work of the Holy Spirit that cleanses a believer of inbred sin; and the imminent return of Christ.

In 2008 Bible Methodism had more churches on mission fields than any of its separate annual conferences had.

Its primary field was in the Philippines, where it had about 40 churches and a bible college operating under national leadership.

The Philippine work was organized with its own national conference with four annual conferences.

In Mexico the Bible Methodist Churches were organized into a national conference in 1992.

On the Mexico-Texas border the Latin American Bible Institute operates, with intermittent difficulties caused by lack of faculty and unco-operative Mexican authorities, to train Mexican laymen and pastors to do the work of the ministry.

Bible Missionary Church Inc. 2005 Manual