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The Missionary Society was organized on April 5, 1819 in New York, and became an official agency, through General Conference action, in 1820. The purpose of the organization was to enable the several Annual Conferences to more effectively spread the Gospel and to aid them in their benevolent and charitable work in both domestic and foreign missions. The society administered its work through a Board of Managers and its Corresponding Secretaries, subject to the General Missionary Committee, which met annually to make appropriations and to establish policy. The board had its headquarters in New York City.

The 1956 General Conference of The Methodist Church established the Commission on Christian Higher Education to direct the quadrennial emphasis on higher education. The primary task of the Commission was to strengthen the bonds that bind the institutions of learning to the church, to lead the schools and colleges of the denomination to a thorough commitment to Christian standards and ideals, and to lead the church in an effort to under gird the schools with adequate moral and financial support.

The Commission had several meetings and several sessions with various groups around the denomination. It reported to the 1960 General Conference of its various actions during the quadrennium and plans on how to integrate its suggested program into the work of the Board of Education.

The Centenary Celebration of American Methodist Missions was held in June and July of 1919. The twenty-four day missionary world’s fair attracted over one million visitors to the Ohio State Fairgrounds complex in Columbus. The exposition was a joint effort of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Other Methodist-related denominations invited to participate included the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Church of Canada. The purpose of the fair was to bring attention to the history and progress of Methodist missions in the United States and around the world. As a result, Methodist missionaries functioned as cultural and religious experts and converted Christians from overseas were brought to the fairgrounds. The missionaries and those missionized spoke of their experiences while participating in a series of exhibits meant to recreate the conditions in their home lands.

The General Conference has been the supreme governing body throughout the history of the United Methodist tradition. It has generally met once every four years. The General Conferences' origins lie in John Wesley's conferences with his assistants held in England.

The Methodist Tradition. The General Conference traces its origins back to the Christmas Conference of 1784, when the Methodist Episcopal Church was formed. The growth and development of the General Conference in the Methodist tradition may be outlined through three successive periods. The first was from 1792 to 1808, at which time a delegated General Conference came into being. During this first period, every minister was a member of the Conference. The second period was from 1808 until 1940. Even though separate Methodist denominations came into existence, all used delegated General Conferences. These meetings made legislation for the denomination, elected denominational presidents or bishops and acted as a judicial review body.

After 1940, the powers of the General Conference regarding election and judicial review were delegated to new bodies, but it still retained the legislative function for the denomination. The General Conference is still the only organization which can 'speak' for the entire denomination.

The Evangelical United Brethren Tradition. In 1946, the Church of the United Brethren in Christ merged with the Evangelical Church to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church.

The Church of the United Brethren in Christ began with the preaching of Philip William Otterbein and Martin Boehm in the 1760s.

On September 25, 1800 at a meeting of Otterbein, Martin Boehm, and other lay ministers at the home of Peter Kemp in Maryland , the church was formally organized under the name, "Church of the United Brethren in Christ." In 1815, the first General Conference was held near Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. . A second General Conference was held June 2, 1817 which arranged for quadrennial sessions of the General Conference.

The Evangelical Association of North America was founded by Jacob Albright. Jacob Albright whose itinerant preaching resulted, in 1803, in the organization of a group called "Albright's People" (Die Albrecht's Leute).

In 1807, the first conference was held at Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania but it was not until 1816 that the first General Conference was held which, among other activities changed the Church's name to "The Evangelical Association" (Evangelische Gemeinschaft).