Methodist Church in Switzerland

Logo of the EMK in Switzerland and Austria

The Evangelical Methodist Church in Switzerland (French: Église Evangélique Méthodiste en Suisse ) is part of the Evangelical Methodist Church (EMK). She is a member of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Switzerland and the Association of Evangelical Free Churches and Congregations in Switzerland . Today the EMK comprises around 120 parishes in Switzerland with around 12,500 members and friends.

organization

The EMK Switzerland, legally an association based in Zurich, is headed by Bishop Patrick Streiff and four district heads, who together form the cabinet, as well as by an executive committee . The Swiss part of the EMK is part of the annual conference Switzerland-France-North Africa . It has representatives from France (20 municipalities), Switzerland (120 municipalities) and North Africa. It is made up of all pastors and an equal number of lay members.

history

The first Methodist congregation in Switzerland was founded in Lausanne in 1840 as a result of proselytizing by the British Wesleyan Methodist Community . The Swiss branch of the Methodist Episcopal Church began to operate in 1856. As a result, the first German sermon was held in Lausanne on February 24, 1856. In the same year up to 400 people gathered in the hall of the Zunft zur Waag in Zurich. The mission in Basel began in 1860. The Evangelical Community began its work in Switzerland around 1866 . Today's Evangelical Methodist Church emerged in 1968 from the union of the Methodist Church with the Evangelical United Brethren Church .

literature

Patrick Streiff : Methodism in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. Media work of the EmK (Germany), o. O. 2003, ISBN 3-89725-029-2 .

Web links

Website of the United Methodist Church in Switzerland
Movement towards Union, 1940-1967. (No longer available online.) In: umc.org. 2005, archived from the original on December 28, 2006 (English): "From The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church - 2004. Copyright 2004 by The United Methodist Publishing House."; accessed on April 16, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Portrait on the website of the United Methodist Church in Switzerland.
^ Alfred Schütz: The Methodist Church in Switzerland. In: Karl Steckel, C. Ernst Sommer (ed.): History of the Evangelical Methodist Church. Christian publishing house, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-7675-7496-9 , p. 123 f.
↑ Streiff 2003, p. 80.

[portraet-1] Portrait on the website of the United Methodist Church in Switzerland.

[2] Alfred Schütz: The Methodist Church in Switzerland. In: Karl Steckel, C. Ernst Sommer (ed.): History of the Evangelical Methodist Church. Christian publishing house, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-7675-7496-9 , p. 123 f.

[3] Streiff 2003, p. 80.