FMC Leaders

Board of Bishops

Free Methodist Church – USA

Each of our three Bishops serves one-third of the United States and represent the FMC in different world areas.

Bishop Matthew Thomas

Lead Bishop

Bishop Matthew Thomas oversees the Western US and Asia

Bishop David Kendall

Bishop

Bishop David Kendall oversees the Central US and Africa

Bishop David Roller

Bishop

Bishop David Roller oversees the Eastern US, Europe, and South/Latin America.

Bishop Elect Linda Adams

Bishop

Bishop Linda Adams was elected at the recent General Conference and will serve through October 2023.

Bishop Elect Keith Cowart

Bishop

Bishop Keith Cowart was elected at the recent General Conference and will serve through October 2023.

Bishop Elect Matt Whitehead

Lead Bishop

Bishop Matt Whitehead was elected at the recent General Conference and will serve through October 2023.

Superintendents

Our Superintendents lead Annual Conferences of the Free Methodist Church, overseeing Pastors and Churches. Each of them embodies the gifts and graces of their calling to lead the church of Jesus Christ.

David Harvey

Conference Superintendent

Acts 12:24 Churches is an organization committed to the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ through local churches. We exist to care for churches and to start new churches, and providing a healthy environment for churches to thrive both in qualitative and quantitative results is the singular focus of our work. We take our name from the verse of Scripture Acts 12:24, which describes the fruit that we desire to see from our work.

Brad Button

Conference Superintendent

Jesus gave this promise, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) Our lives and the local church of which we are a part can make a difference right where we are, in places nearby, in far-away places and even in hard places. As a conference, we ask each church to define its ministry partnerships and commitments to local, regional and global mission.

Ben Tolly

Conference Superintendent

We exist to raise up communities of faith, inspire tenacious Christ followers, and equip the next generation of spiritual leaders . If you are seeking a region of the country to make an impact in, come check us out. It is my heartfelt desire that you will not see just another conference or denomination trying to build its own brand and kingdom, but rather a sincere group of followers, desiring to grow close to God.

Pam Braman

Conference Superintendent

The Genesis Conference…
*trains & ordains
*supports new strategies
*encourages fresh starts
*appoints (hires)
*empowers
*trains
*resources
*launches new churches
*celebrates new campuses
*creates and shares systems and programs

Bruce Cromwell

Conference Superintendent

The Great Plains Conference of the Free Methodist Church serves Free Methodist churches in Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. The annual conference is the organization at the regional level that joins local churches into a network. Its function is to ensure that pastors and congregations are counseled and encouraged, to identify those who are being called into the ordained ministry, and to promote and oversee church planting and evangelism.

Chris Hill

Conference Superintendent

To strategically support, resource, and coordinate the work of the Keystone Conference churches so that together we may see God’s Kingdom work thrive across Pennsylvania and beyond.

Every church a healthy, biblical community of holy people multiplying disciples, leaders, groups, and churches across Pennsylvania and beyond.

Jeff Johnson

Conference Superintendent

The Mission of Mid-America Conference is fulfilling the Great Commission by supporting, growing and developing healthy leaders, churches and ministries in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Southwest Missouri and to the ends of the earth.

Daryl Diddle

Interim Conference Superintendent

The New South Conference of the Free Methodist Church covers the Carolinas, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Mike Hopper

Conference Superintendent

The NCC is one of many conferences (regional collections of churches) of the Free Methodist Church USA. The FMCUSA is one of the few denominations in America that sees continual growth, with a full-throttled belief that God desires us to bring the WHOLE gospel for the WHOLE person to the WHOLE world! Free Methodists live out their faith on nearly every continent and the movement has doubled in the past six years to over 1 million strong.

Tom Doherty

Conference Superintendent

I have a vision and a desire to make a difference for the Kingdom. I am focused on helping leaders to grow, churches to become vital, and a church planting movement to begin in Michigan. My passion is helping Christians become more effective in expressing the Love of Christ and drawing people into a relationship with Jesus Christ. We are working hard at this in many ways, including teaching the folks of our conference the Every Church Grows material, and praise God, He is blessing, and we are seeing results.

Glen Prior

Conference Superintendent

Our first and highest call is to build the church of Jesus Christ. Our churches reflect the freedom of the Holy Spirit to guide our worship and our lives as we experience the transforming presence of God.

Alma & Brent Thompson

Conference Co-Superintendents

We are for Jesus. We know that God is up to something in the world. God is on a mission to SAVE the world and everyone on it. We are a group of churches that are drawn together to serve this One True God. In joining God’s mission, we want to love the world in very practical, meaningful ways. But, we also recognize that our love will fall short of perfect. That’s OK. We will yet strive to serve one another in Jesus as each of our local churches serve their communities.

Chris Hill

Conference Superintendent

We purpose to fulfill the mission of the Oregon Conference of the Free Methodist Church by fostering pastoral leadership development; providing a variety of services and ministry resources designed to help our congregations be healthy, growing, and reproducing; and by creating ample opportunities for networking with other churches.

Jason Garcia

Conference Superintendent

Our vision is to EQUIP, NURTURE, and GROW a highly contextual network of healthy Asian leaders and multiplying churches that will transform the spiritual landscape of the Pacific Rim and beyond.

Matt Whitehead

Conference Superintendent

Partnering to Impact Eternity, The Pacific Northwest Conference seeks to model the following values:

Sustaining our commitment to serve the local church
Raising up and coaching leaders
Investing resources in church planting and church revitalization
Promoting individual spiritual and church health
Establishing and endorsing partnerships
Serving at the margins

Mark Adams

Conference Superintendent

The theology of blessing (Gen.1.27,28; Gen.12:1-3; Gen.22:15-18; Mtw.5:1-12; Gal.3:1-14; Rev.20:6) undergirds our vision of God-infused life and hope – which indeed is the very meaning of blessing – to affirm and create the conditions for life and growth. There is no greater act of life than God’s power to create and no greater evidence transformational hope than the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Charles Latchison

Conference Superintendent

Our first and highest call is to build the church of Jesus Christ. Our churches reflect the freedom of the Holy Spirit to guide our worship and our lives as we experience the transforming presence of God. We lead with a humble dependence on the Holy Spirit who gives fresh, healthy and holy church life; who brings new disciples, new baptisms, new members, new ministries and creates new expressions of mercy and holistic community outreach in his power.

Fraser Venter

Conference Superintendent

Our first and highest call is to build the church of Jesus Christ. Our churches reflect the freedom of the Holy Spirit to guide our worship and our lives as we experience the transforming presence of God. We lead with a humble dependence on the Holy Spirit who gives fresh, healthy and holy church life; who brings new disciples, new baptisms, new members, new ministries and creates new expressions of mercy and holistic community outreach in his power.

Glen Prior

Conference Superintendent

Our first and highest call is to build the church of Jesus Christ. Our churches reflect the freedom of the Holy Spirit to guide our worship and our lives as we experience the transforming presence of God. We lead with a humble dependence on the Holy Spirit who gives fresh, healthy and holy church life; who brings new disciples, new baptisms, new members, new ministries and creates new expressions of mercy and holistic community outreach in his power.

Keith Cowart

Conference Superintendent

The Southeast Region (SER) is a geographically broad area including three conferences. The SER is comprised of Anglo, Brazilian, Haitian and Hispanic congregations. The regional and cultural diversity of the area creates a rich environment for collaboration and outreach.

Bruce Rhodes

Conference Superintendent

The Southern Michigan Conference consists of a network of nearly 40 local churches and church plants spread across a 15 county area in our state as well as Ontario and Ohio. Together we worship and work together in order to extend the Kingdom of God both within and beyond our own borders. We are bound together by our commitment to Scripture, our Wesleyan/Armenian theology and our Book of Discipline. And, we hold dear two core values:

1. We are better together than we can be by ourselves.

2. We can do more together than we can do by ourselves.

Doug Rabe

Conference Superintendent

We are currently 48 churches throughout southwestern Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia committed to spreading the gospel and embracing the Free Methodist Vision that calls us “to bring wholeness to the world through healthy biblical communities of holy people multiplying disciples, leaders, groups, and churches.”

Dr. Michael Traylor and Dr. Amelia Cleveland-Traylor.

Conference Co-Superintendents

Making disciples, mobilizing leaders, meeting human needs, multiplying churches.

Everywhere the river flows, it brings life!

John Lane

Conference Superintendent

The vision of the Wabash Conference is to see a world transformed by Christ. We see a growing connection of life-giving FM Churches throughout Eastern Illinois and Indiana, transforming our region for Christ. Together we believe that God has good plans for the Wabash Conference and has positioned us to be His witnesses and to play our part in this time, in this place for the sake of the world and His kingdom as we seek to live out our historic calling of holiness of heart and life and ministry to (and with) the poor.