Philip Otterbein and Martin Boehm formed the United Brethren in Christ Church in 1800. They were holding revivals among German immigrants with Lutheran and Reformed allegiances and with Methodist influence that were very successful.
. Jacob Albrecht was a German farmer who organized classes for the Methodist church and saw many new converts. Some of these wished to worship in German so they formed The Evangelical Association in 1816, which steadily grew in numbers. In 1891 a...