Oldham started the church's first English-language boys' school in 1886, the Anglo-Chinese School. Rev William Fitzjames Oldham travelled to Singapore to plant the foundations of the mission. The Methodist Church in Singapore started out as a missionary initiative by Rev James Thoburn of the South India Conference in India in 1885. The Church also has 15 schools, 13 kindergartens and five childcare centres under its umbrella. Its current bishop and head of the Church is Rev Dr Gordon Wong, who was elected at the 12th Session of the General Conference on 7 September 2020. The Church has 46 churches island-wide with around 42,000 members, and is the largest mainline Protestant denomination in Singapore.
The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS) is the church that Methodists in Singapore belong to.
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