A Methodist chapel in Leliefontein, Northern Cape, South Africa.The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa The Rev Pumla Nzimande Albert Street Methodist Church in 1926
The church is the largest mainline Protestant denomination in South Africa – 7.3% of the South African population recorded their religious affiliation as 'Methodist' in the last national census.[1] The denomination has nearly 2 million members.[2]
^For a discussion of Church membership statistics in South Africa please refer to Forster, D. "God's mission in our context, healing and transforming responses" in Forster, D and Bentley, W. Methodism in Southern Africa: A celebration of Wesleyan Mission. Kempton Park. AcadSA publishers (2008:97–98)