In 2023, it had approximately 10,000 members and the head of the church is Bishop Ricardo Pereira.
However, the Spanish-American War interrupted the work, and it was not until 1898 that American missionaries arrived in Cuba.
In 1964 the General Conference passed an enabling act to allow the Cuban Methodist Church to become autonomous if it wished.
In the 1990s, the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church and Methodist Church in Cuba met to discuss a partnership; a ministry called the Cuba/Florida Covenant (later called Methodists United in Prayer) was born from this meeting.
[3] In 1941, the church worked with other Christians to create the Evangelical Theological Seminary at Matanzas (SET), which opened in 1946.