For the sake of consensus I figured that I d post that sentence here rather than paste it into the lead since I don t want to get into a revert war I think it more succinctly summarizes the term local in the context of the Methodist church and considering that this is ultimately a list we don t really need a long and flowery introduction I d also like to state that I m concerned that the current state of the article gives undue weight to the UK branches and buildings We have long paragraphs about the churches in the UK but not much about the churches in any other country This is why I really think it d be better to create articles for each continent rather than lump them all together If someone is more of an expert on British churches and writes predominantly on that while only writing a few sentences on the Chinese or American churches it becomes lopsided and uneven It s not that the paragraphs are bad just that more emphasis and priority seems to be given to the UK churches