page_title: World Methodist Council
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: World Methodist Council / Organization
caption_attribution_description: English: World Methodist Council and museum of Methodism, Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, USA
context_page_description: The World Methodist Council, founded in 1881, is a consultative body and association of churches in the Methodist tradition. It comprises 80 member denominations in 138 countries which together represent about 80 million people.
  Affiliated organizations are the World Fellowship of Methodist and Uniting Churches, the Oxford-Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, the World Methodist Historical Society, World Council of Confederation of Methodist Youth, the World Council of Methodist Men, World Methodist Council of Teens, the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women and The General Commission on Archives and History.
context_section_description: The highest organ of the World Methodist Council is the World Methodist Conference meeting every five years. The next Conference will be in Sweden in 2021.
  The 21st Conference was held in 2016 in Houston, Texas in the United States. The theme was “ONE.” Organized around four sub themes – One God, One Faith, One People, One Mission.
  The 2011 conference, gathered under the theme "Jesus Christ - for the Healing of the Nations", was held in August 2011 in Durban, South Africa. On 24 July 2006, Sunday Mbang stepped down as chairperson of the council and John Barrett took over his position as well as elected president for the council.
  In 2006, it formally approved the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.
  The World Methodist Council has offices in: Lake Junaluska, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; New York City; and Atlanta, Georgia.
  Current officers are:
  General secretary: Bishop Ivan M. Abrahams
  President: Bishop Paulo Lockmann
  Vice-President: Gillian Kingston
  Treasurer: Kirby Hickey Jr.
  Youth and young adult coordinator: John Thomas III
caption: World Methodist Council headquarters at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, containing a museum of Methodism and a small park, the Susannah Wesley Herb Garden
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