The Methodist Church originated in England in the 18th century.
It was started as a movement within the Church of England by a group including John Wesley and his younger brother Charles.
The name, "Methodist" was a college nickname given to a small group of students at Oxford.
These students met between 1729 to 1735, for the purpose of mutual improvement and charity work.
Due to different views and influence, the Methodists separated, with those of Whitefield becoming Calvinistic Methodists and the Wesleyan Methodists followed Arminian theology.
In 1932, the three major streams of British Methodism united to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
During the 1960s, the Methodist Church made overtures to the Church of England towards church unity.
Although they were rejected in 1972 by the Church of England's General Synod, in 2003 they signed a covenant between the two churches.
These days, there are more then 75 million members worldwide of the Methodist Church.
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