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The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (C.M.E.C.) is a Methodist denomination that is based in the United States. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology . Though historically a part of the black church , the Christian Methodist Episcopal church membership has evolved to include all racial backgrounds.
In the early 1900s, Cobb founded the Helena B. Cobb Institute in Barnesville, Georgia. [note 3] Modeled after Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, the institute provided education to African American girls, [6] and was the only school within the CME Church for women. [4]
The present church is a continuation of the old Christ CME Church, it sits on a two-acre land plot and was rebuilt off of Crestview Road. Christ CME Church was built circa 1850 of hand hewn logs and board shutters for window covers. The church membership consisted of both Whites and their Black slaves.
The History of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church 1870-2009 (Wyndham Hall Press, 2011) 304pp; Stevens, Abel. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (1884) online; Stowell, Daniel W. Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877 Oxford University Press, 1998. Stroupe, Henry Smith.
Holsey converted to Methodism after attending plantation missionary revivals led by Henry McNeal Turner. [4] He was given a preaching license as a Methodist minister in February 1868 and held various positions as a minister until he was appointed a bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (now the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church) in March 1873.
From 1902 to 1903, he served as a pastor at Trinity CME Church in Augusta, Georgia; and at the same time period he was the principal of West Broad Street School in Athens, Georgia, the first black school in the state. [1] In 1902, Bray was the CME Church representative for the Negro Congress meeting in Atlanta. [1]
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, was appalled by slavery in the British colonies.When the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was founded in the United States at the "Christmas Conference" synod meeting of ministers at the Lovely Lane Chapel in Baltimore in December 1784, the denomination officially opposed slavery very early.
History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (1884) online; Sweet, William Warren Methodism in American History, (1954) 472pp. Teasdale, Mark R. Methodist Evangelism, American Salvation: The Home Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1860–1920 (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2014) Tucker, Karen B. Westerfield.