John & Charles Wesley and the early Methodists built The New Room to house their meetings. Photo by Joe Iovino, United Methodist Communications. John Wesley himself would have been familiar with the interior of this church building; he oversaw the construction of it in 1778.
Photo by Bob Johnson courtesy Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Ambitious plans are brewing at the United Methodist Commission on Archives and History, in a time when budgets in The United Methodist Church are being cut. Top executive Ashley Boggan talks about those plans and raising the money to pay for them.
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