The People's Methodist Church

The People's Methodist Church was a Wesleyan-Holiness denomination in the Southern United States from 1938–1962 founded by revivalist Jim H. Green.

The denomination consisted of around 1,000 members in 25 churches in the U.S. states of North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia at the time of its merger with the like-minded Evangelical Methodist Church in 1962.

James Henderson "Jim" Green (21 June 1881 – May 23, 1955) founded the People's Methodist Church. Born in a one-room cabin in Ashe County, North Carolina, Green became an educator and, following a high-profile religious conversion, a prominent and fiery Methodist Episcopal Church South minister and evangelist.

Denouncing the inroads of theological liberalism on one hand, and the allure of worldly prestige on the other, Green left the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1926. He described this event as "the saddest hour of my ministerial career. It almost killed me." (Green would reunite with the mainline Methodist fold in 1954, about six months before his death of a stroke.)

During his time away from the Methodist Church, Green was an itinerant Evangelist in the Church of the Nazarene and founded the independent Lighthouse Mission in St. Louis, which he served from 1929–31.

In 1932 he established the People's Bible School on property that recently held the defunct Greensboro Bible and Literary Institute in Greensboro, North Carolina. The college, which started with four faculty (from the previous institute) and 18 students, later became known as John Wesley College (1956). This college distributed the People's Herald periodical, later titled The Crusader. The college remained non-denominational while promoting a distinctively Wesleyan-Holiness view on entire sanctification, with Methodist Evangelist and Holiness pamphleteer John R. Church as its first board chairman.

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