Southern Congregational Methodist Church

The Southern Congregational Methodist Church (SCMC) is a small, theologically-conservative Wesleyan-Holiness Christian denomination. It reported 29 churches located in the Southern United States as of 2007.

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Southern Congregational Methodist Churches espouse an Evangelical doctrine and are found largely in rural areas of the American South. The churches emphasize "the basic fundamental doctrines of the historic Christian faith within the framework of traditional Methodism" typical of most Methodist bodies in the Holiness movement "in the John Wesley tradition."

The governmental structure of the church is made up of monthly local church conferences, annual district conferences, and quadrennial general conferences.

Southern Congregational Methodist churches were found in the following U.S. states as of 2007: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. The denomination supported two mission groups as of 2007.^[1] As of 2015, several Southern Congregational Methodist Churches were found on the roster of the larger Congregational Methodist Church^[2]

See also

• Congregational Methodist Church
• Methodism
• Methodist Episcopal Church, South
• Holiness movement

Notes

1. ↑ CMC churches archive
2. ↑ http://www.cm-church.org/#/church-finder Congregational Methodist Church church finder page

External links

• Southern Congregational Methodist Church archived website