On board was a young Anglican minister, John Wesley ... From this "holy club" (as fellow students mockingly called it), Wesley sailed to Georgia to pastor. His experience proved to be a failure.

After spending just one day in America, John Wesley already had grave concerns ... he needed the spiritual rigors of the Oxford Holy Club. Three months later one of the trustees of the Georgia ...

Scoffers began calling them “Methodists” as a derogatory slur, mocking the structured and reasoned approach the Holy Club had to live their faith. John Wesley embraced the term, steadfast in ...

They became known as 'The Holy Club' or 'Methodists' because of the methodical way in which they carried out their Christian faith. John Wesley later used the term Methodist himself to mean the ...

During this time brother Charles Wesley organised a group of students at Oxford University who met together for Bible study and prayer; they became known as The Holy Club. When John returned to ...

Read the history of the life of John Wesley and his impact on the world ... where he helped establish the Holy Club, dubbed 'Methodist' due to their prescribed method of studying the Bible.