Free Methodist Church in Malaysia

Free Methodist Church in Malaysia
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Methodist Holiness
Polity	Connexional
Leader	Rev. Henry Ng
Associations	Free Methodist World Missions
Region	Malaysia
Origin	2002
Branched from	Free Methodist Church of North America
Congregations	6
Members	240
Ministers	6 (incl. ministerial candidates)

The Free Methodist Church in Malaysia is a body within the Methodist Holiness tradition in Malaysia, and a mission district of the Free Methodist Church of North America. It is Evangelical in nature and has its roots in the Wesleyan-Arminian tradition. The Free Methodist Church in Malaysia is led by the Rev. Henry Ng.

The other body of Methodists in Malaysia is the Methodist Church in Malaysia which had been established since 1885.

The Free Methodist Church was first organised in Pekin, New York, in 1860 by former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church who had been expelled for too earnestly advocating what they saw as the doctrines and practices of authentic Wesleyanism. The church was initially led by the Rev B. T. Roberts, a graduate of Wesleyan University. The primary points of dissent was on the issue of slavery, the theology of Sanctification and pew rental, a practice whereby the best seats in a church was auctioned to the highest bidder as a means to raise funds, that was prevalent in the Methodist Episcopal Church then.

In 2002, the Free Methodist Church in Malaysia was dedicated and officiated in Ipoh, Perak as a mission of the Free Methodist World Missions. In 2008, the Free Methodist Church in Malaysia was recognised as a mission district of the Free Methodist World Missions and now has 6 organised churches with the main church in Ipoh having English, Chinese and Malay speaking congregations.

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