The Free Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination within the holiness movement. It is Wesleyan-Arminian in theology; the Free Methodist Church has 77,000 members in the United States and 1,055,000 members worldwide in 82 nations. The Light & Life Magazine is their official publication; the Free Methodist Church World Ministries Center is in Indiana. The Free Methodist Church was organized at Pekin, New York, in 1860; the founders had been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church but were excluded from its membership for too earnestly advocating what they saw as the doctrines and usages of authentic Wesleyan Methodism. Under the leadership of the Rev. Benjamin Titus Roberts, a graduate of Wesleyan University and an able and eloquent preacher, the movement spread rapidly. Societies were organized, churches built and the work established. At the 1910 session of the General Conference of the Methodist Church at Rochester, New York, a full acknowledgement was made of the wrong done to Roberts fifty years before, the credentials unjustly taken from him were restored in a public meeting to his son, Rev. Benson Roberts.

Before the founding of the church, Roberts began publication of a monthly journal, The Earnest Christian. In 1868, The Free Methodist was begun. A publishing house was established in 1886 to produce books and Sunday school curriculum and literature; the name "Methodist" was retained for the newly organized church because the founders felt that their misfortunes had come to them because of their adherence to doctrines and standards of Methodism. The word "Free" was adopted because the new church was anti-slavery. Next, pews were to be free to all rather than sold or rented, so as to provide full access to the poor; the new church hoped for the freedom of worship in the Holy Spirit, as opposed to a stifling formality. A fourth principle was "freedom" from secret and oath-bound societies, so as to have full loyalty to Christ. Fifth was "freedom" from the abuse of ecclesiastical authority. Was "freedom" to experience transformation in sanctification via the Holy Spirit due to personal consecration and faith versus just'sin-management' or gradual growth following justification.

Holiness Conservatives within the Free Methodist Church left to form the Reformed Free Methodist Church in 1932, the United Holiness Church in 1966 and the Evangelical Wesleyan Church in 1963. Free Methodist headquarters were located in Winona Lake, until 1990 when the denomination moved its headquarters to Indianapolis; the church has about 77,000 members in the United States. Worldwide its membership is over 1,000,000 with large segments of membership in East Central Africa and India. In doctrine, Free Methodists’ beliefs are the standard beliefs of Wesleyan-Arminian Protestantism, with distinctive emphasis on the teaching of entire sanctification as held by John Wesley, to whom the Free Methodist Church traces its origins; the Free Methodist Church, along with the United Methodist Church, shares a common heritage linked to the Methodist revival in England during the 18th century. The Free Methodist Church itself arose within the context of holiness movement within 19th century Methodism. While some clergy in the Free Methodist Church wear the pulpit robe, others do not wear vestments of any sort during worship.

The first general superintendent, B. T. Roberts, was in favor of ordaining women, but never saw it take place in his lifetime. Out of his own conviction he wrote Ordaining Women: Historical Insights; the impact of his writings prevailed in the church. The Free Methodist Church affirmed the ordination of women in 1911; as of June 2008, women represented 26 % of candidates for the ministry. Free Methodists license unordained persons for particular ministries, they mandate lay representation in numbers equal to clergy in the councils of the church. As a reaction to paid musicians in the Methodist Episcopal Church, early Free Methodists enjoyed a capella congregational hymns during worship. However, the General Conference of 1943 voted to allow each Conference to vote on whether or not their churches could have instrumental music; as a result and organs became common across most conferences. Many churches have worship teams composed of vocalists, keyboards and other instruments; the Free Methodist Church's highest governing body is the World Conference, composed of representatives, both lay and clergy, from all countries with a Free Methodist General Conference.

As the church in each country develops, its status progresses from Mission District to Annual Conference to General Conference. There are 13 General Conferences in the world, which are linked together through the articles of religion and common constitution of the first two chapters of the Book of Discipline, the World Conference, the Council of Bishops; the USA branch of the Free Methodist Church is led by three bishops: Bishop Matthew Whitehead, Bishop Linda Adams, Bishop Keith Cowart. All three were elected in 2019. International Child Care Ministries, a child sponsorship initiative serves more than 21 000 children in 29 countries around the world. Through education and medical care, children in need are given an opportunity for a better life; each sponsored child is connected to a Free Methodist ministry at a local level. Sustainable Empowerment through Economic

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On the Rocks is a 2008 play written by Amy Rosenthal and directed by Clare Lizzimore about real events surrounding novelist, short story writer and playwright D. H. Lawrence in the tiny village of Zennor in Cornwall in 1916 in the middle of World War I, it played at the Hampstead Theatre in London from 1 to 26 July 2008. It was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2009. D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda are living a shaky relationship with the overpowering Frieda missing her children, whom she abandoned for the writer, fighting with Lawrence; the local coastguards suspect that Frieda, a cousin of Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron air ace, is a German spy and is sending signals from the cliffs to U-boats in the channel. In these turbulent times, the Lawrences invite their best, by now only remaining friends, the critic and editor John Middleton Murry and the short-story writer Katherine Mansfield to come and join them in the cottage. For Lawrence, this was a step on the road to his ideal of Rananim – a utopia where one could be happy with a group of friends.

As things develop and Frieda engage in violent fights followed by love-making sessions on the floor. Lawrence suggests that Murry becomes his blood brother, while Mansfield has writer's block, a situation Rosenthal passed through for six years before writing this play. Mansfield, after an enforced intimacy with Frieda, puts an end to the social experiment, leaving Lawrence with a permanent sense of betrayal. Ed Stoppard as DH Lawrence Tracy-Ann Oberman as Frieda Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence's wife Nick Caldecott as John Middleton Murry Charlotte Emmerson as Katherine Mansfield Director: Clare Lizzimore Writer: Amy Rosenthal Designer: Paul Burgess Lighting designer: Jon Clark Sound designer: Edward Lewis