Methodism

====Tonga====
[[File:Saione.jpg|thumb|Saione, the church of the king – the main Free Wesleyan Church of [[Kolomotuʻa]], Tonga]]
Methodism had a particular resonance with the inhabitants of Tonga. In the 1830s Wesleyan missionaries converted paramount chief [[George Tupou I|Taufa'ahau Tupou]] who in turn converted fellow islanders. Today, Methodism is represented on the islands by the [[Free Church of Tonga]] and the [[Free Wesleyan Church]], which is the largest church in Tonga. {{As of|2011}} 48% of Tongans adhered to Methodist churches.<ref>{{cite book |title=Tonga 2011 Census of Population and Housing |url=https://tonga-data.sprep.org/system/files/2011_CensusReportVol_1rev.pdf |publisher=Statistics Department Tonga |page=xi |volume=1 |date=2011}}</ref> The royal family of the country are prominent members of the Free Wesleyan Church, and the late king was a lay preacher.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cummins |first1=H. G. |title=The Archives of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25168318 |journal=The Journal of Pacific History |pages=102–106 |date=1978|volume=13 |issue=2 |doi=10.1080/00223347808572343 |jstor=25168318 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=‘Ahio |first1=Finau Pila |date=2007 |title=Christianity and Taufa'āhau in Tonga: 1800–1850 |url=https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/mjt/23-1_22.pdf |journal=Melanesian Journal of Theology |volume=23 |issue=1 |page=33}}</ref> Tongan Methodist minister [[Sione 'Amanaki Havea]] developed [[coconut theology]], which tailors theology to a Pacific Islands context.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Prior |first1=Randall |title=I Am the Cocconut of Life: An Evaluation of Coconut Theology |journal=Pacific Journal of Theology |date=1993 |volume=2 |issue=10 |pages=31–40 |publisher=South Pacific Association of Theological Schools |location=Suva, Fiji}}</ref>