Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection

In 1784, after unsuccessful attempts to have the Church of England send a bishop to start a new Church in the colonies, Wesley decisively appointed fellow priest Thomas Coke as superintendent (bishop) to organize a separate Methodist Society.

[6] The new Church grew rapidly in the young country as it employed circuit riders, many of whom were laymen, to travel the mostly rural nation by horseback to preach the Gospel and to establish churches until there was scarcely any village in the United States without a Methodist presence.

With 4,000 circuit riders by 1844, the Methodist Episcopal Church rapidly became the largest Protestant denomination in the country.

[12] The denomination has other smaller campgrounds that also hold camp meetings throughout its geographic territory, such as those in Belsano, Pennsylvania and Princeton, West Virginia.

[13] Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection also runs Northwest Indian Bible School (NIBS) in Alberton, Montana.

[13] In addition, the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection has sixteen Christian schools in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Montana, and New Mexico.

[13] These are located in Haiti, Ghana, Peru, as well as among Native Americans of the United States and Canada.