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The Commission on Church Union was established in 1948 by The Methodist Church. Its purpose was to investigate overtures and proposals of union or merger with various other denominations. In 1960 it reported to the General Conference that "... the time had come to move forward with a drafting of a plan for organic union.' The Joint Commission worked on the Plan of Union. There was a report made at the 1964 General Conference, but the final vote and other matters were referred to the 1966 special session of the General Conference, where it was accepted.

The purpose of Relocation Study Committee, established by General Conference in 1988, was to study the feasibility of moving the General Board of Global Ministries from New York City.

The Commission to Study and Recommend Action Concerning the Jurisdictional System was created by the General Conference of 1956, composed of seventy members from all six jurisdictions, and assigned the following responsibility and authority: to make a thorough study of the jurisdictional system, with special reference to its philosophy, its effectiveness, its weaknesses, and its relationship to the future of the Methodist Church; and, to carry on studies and conduct hearings in all the jurisdictions on racial segregation in the Methodist Church, and other problems related to the jurisdictional system. Finally, the commission was to develop courses of action directed toward greater interracial brotherhood and the spirit of Christian love.

The Woman's Missionary Association of the United Brethren in Christ began with the establishment by Lizzie Hoffman of the Miami Annual Conference Woman's Missionary Association on May 9, 1872. Other conferences created their own branches, using the Miami branch as a model. On October 21, 1875, a national Woman's Missionary Association (WMA) was formed by representatives of nine conference branches, entirely independent of the General Board of Missions, but in cooperation with it. The WMA was recognized by the 1877 General Conference.

In 1876, Emily Beeken, the first missionary of the Woman's Missionary Association, was sent to Africa with orders to open a school in Rotifunk, Sierra Leone.

The Woman's Missionary Association was incorporated and the first Board of Trustees was elected in 1881. In 1882, the associations established a Chinese mission school in Portland, Oregon. The association also began publishing The Woman's Evangel that year.

At the Board of Trustees Meeting on July 24th 1917, the name of the Woman's Missionary Association was changed to the Women's Missionary Association. When the Church of the United Brethren in Christ merged with the Evangelical Church in 1946, the Women's Missionary Association merged with the Woman's Missionary Society of the Evangelical Church to form the Women's Society of World Service.

The United Methodist City Society is an organization of local churches within New York City who work in conjunction with other organizations, including the General Board of Global Ministries for the general welfare and outreach ministries of these same churches while pooling their resources. The organization itself predates the Untied Methodist Church and has its roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church.