| A Brief History |
| The United Methodist Church (UMC) is part of a Wesleyan movement that now claims a total of 18 million members of various Methodist Churches around the world. |
| The UMC is part of the church universal. All persons, regardless of race, color, national origin, status, or economic condition are welcome to attend its services, recieve Holy Communion, and after taking vows, be baptized and admitted into membership in the body of the local church. |
| First United Methodist Church is a local extension of this global United Methodist Church. While the denomination was formed in 1968 with the union of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church, the local church has been sharing the good news of God's Word with residents of the Hartford area since 1851. |
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