The Free Methodist Church in Great Britain was formed in 1971 by a group of people who felt a call of God on their lives to be a Bible believing Methodist people, and this could still be said of the Movement today The Rev J Barrie Walton, founding pastor of the, Crown Lane, and Free Methodist Churches, believes that God established the Free Methodist Church in England with a calling to be The Free Methodist Church emphasises scriptural holiness, practical godliness, social concern, Christian education, evangelism and foreign missions The quarterly Free Methodist People magazine is to go digital in 2011 We desire to be a people rooted in the authority of the whole of God's word, filled with and moving in the power of the Holy Spirit, seeking to bring the message of God's Kingdom to all generations