In 1976, the process was repeated when it was restructured into the Methodist Church in Singapore, and Malaysia, respectively. The Malaysian and Singapore components became autonomous in 1968, and thus became an Asian church with a bishop elected from amongst its ministers. Like most other missions, the Methodist Mission in Singapore and Malaya expanded and matured - first becoming a conference, then conferences spanning South-East Asia, and the establishment of the South-East Asian Central Conference in 1950. Thereafter the mission spread rapidly to the main towns of the Malayan Peninsula and Sarawak, were churches and schools were twinned. The mission and its first English-language school were established in 1886. The Methodist Church in Singapore derives its beginnings from a missionary initiative of the South India Conference (Methodist) in 1885.
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