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At first the church consisted of many former Methodist Episcopal people who had been actively involved in the Underground Railroad just prior to the American Civil War, which had sought to aid escaped slaves gain safety and freedom in Canada. Some of the stations are still centers of Free Methodist activity today, such as North Chili, New York , site of present-day Roberts Wesleyan College, a Free Methodist school named after the founder. From there fugitive slaves were taken to Lake OntarioWolcott, New York Lake Ontario bounded on the north by Ontario and on the south by Ontario's Niagara Peninsula and by New York State, is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. The name of the lake is an Iroquois word meaning either "beautiful lake" and boated across to Canada. Another Underground Railroad site was Pekin, New York , near the Niagara RiverThe Niagara River flows to the north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. It serves as the border between the Province of Ontario in Canada and New York State in the United States. The river is about 56 kilometres (35 miles) long and includes Niagara Falls alo, where slaves also crossed. This tiny town was the site of a HolinessThe holiness movement is composed of people who believe and propagate the belief that the carnal nature/ original sin of the human can be cleansed through faith in the Holy Spirit. This assuming that the person has already had their sins forgiven through camp meetingCamp meetings were a phenomenon of American frontier Christianity. The movement of thousands of persons to what had previously been trackless wilderness in the eighteenth century in America had led to something of a religious vacuum. Not only were there f, as well, and the site of the organizational conference of the church in 1860. The denomination also has numerous churches in the MidwestMidwest States United States of America, ND to OH The Midwest is a common name for a region of the United States of America. The term originated in the 19th century, along with 'Middle West' and 'Heartland', and referred to generally the same areas and st, some of the oldest ones also being in communities that were abolitionistThis article is about the abolition of slavery. For a page on the general concept of abolition, see abolition. For information regarding the abolition of suffering, see abolitionist society. Great Britain and the United States. Abolitionism a political mo centers and Underground Railroad stops along the southern shore of Lake MichiganLake Michigan is one of the five North American Great Lakes. It is bounded, in clockwise order from the south, by the US states of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan, which is named for it. Lake Michigan is the only one of the Great Lakes wholly w.

Today, the Free Methodist Church is considered to be a part of EvangelicalEvangelicalism in a strictly lexical, but rarely used sense, refers to all things that are implied in belief that Jesus Christ is the savior. To be evangelical would then mean to be merely Christian that is, founded upon, motivated by, acting in agreement Protestant Christianity, and its theology is similar to that of the Wesleyan Church, the Church of the Nazarene and other Holiness churches. Members have traditionally abstained from alcohol and tobacco.

The largest Free Methodist church in the world is in Spring Arbor, Michigan. Light and Life is the official magazine of the Free Methodist denomination. It has about 69,000 members in the United States.

Besides Roberts Wesleyan, the denomination maintains Spring Arbor University, Greenville College, Central Christian College, and Seattle Pacific University.