The Methodist Church in Singapore (abb. MCS) is the church of the Methodists in Singapore. The church has 42 churches islandwide with more than 32,000 members, which represents one of the largest Protestant denominations in Singapore. Its current bishop and head of church is Bishop Dr Robert Solomon.

History

The Methodist Church in Singapore started out as a missionary initiative at the South India Conference in India by James Thoburn in 1885. William Fitzjames Oldham established the mission and the church's first English language boys school in 1886, which is the Anglo-Chinese School. Two girls schools Methodist Girls' School and Fairfield Methodist Girls' School were established in 1887 and 1888 respectively . The mission develop local vernaculars, a clinic and hostels for homeless girls and foreign boys.

The mission therefore spread to the Malay Peninsula and Sarawak in the 1890s. The Methodist Mission in Singapore and Malaya expanded, and

The Malaysian and Singapore components of the mission had its autonomy in 1968, thus becoming an Asian church with a bishop that was elected from the ministers. In 1976, the church was restructed into the Methodist Church in Singapore and the Methodist Church in Malaysia.

Conferences

The Methodist Church in Singapore has three conferences annually, the Trinity Annual Conference for the English churches, the Chinese Annual Conference for Chinese churches and the Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference for Tamil churches. This is headed by a bishop which is elected by a bishop at its general conference. Each conference is headed by a president.

Schools

There are thirteen primary and secondary schools and a junior college by the Methodist Church which is represented by the Methodist Schools Foundation. Six of the schools are part of the Anglo-Chinese School family which includes a junior college.