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Each Wesleyan Church is different in style and personality, yet our heritage and basic beliefs are the same.

Cypress is comprised of people from many church/religious backgrounds and even some who are new to the faith but desiring to learn more about the Christian experience.  We believe that personal faith in Christ is our hope for salvation.  We look to Christ as our example, and we need each other for effective spiritual growth and maturity in our daily walk of life.  Our mission is to "connect people to God and one another by reaching the lost, growing in Christ, and serving others."

BEGINNINGS
In the 1700s, Christianity experienced a dynamic surge across England.  This spiritual awakening was due in part to God's use of John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield.  The 18th century revival was eventually mobilized by the Wesleys and others into "class meetings," "societies," and other means of discipleship which gave birth to a major Wesleyan movement, later called Methodism.

WESLEY EMPHASIZED THREE BIBLICAL TRUTHS:
   1.  Grace is available to all
   2.  Salvation is received by faith
   3.  We are called to holiness in Christ

Wesley's labors led to the birth of Methodism in England.  Later, in 1766, Methodism took root in the American colonies.  Under the leadership of Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke, the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in Baltimore, Maryland on Christmas Eve, 1784.

After several decades, the Methodists began to lose focus on the issues of Christian holiness, including the issue of slavery which was generally tolerated.  However, many early Methodists believed that slavery and other social trends were clearly against the spirit of Christianity.  Eventually, in 1843, the Wesleyan Methodist connection was formed.  The new organization had no bishops, opposed slavery, supported women's rights, encouraged child labor reform, supported the emerging labor movement, and battled an assortment of social and political reform issues.

In 1968, the Wesleyan Methodist Church merged with the Pilgrim Holiness Church (which had taken in the Reformed Baptists of Canada in 1966) to form the Wesleyan Church.

We have over 4,000 churches worldwide with an attendance of over 350,000 per Sunday in worship. 

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