Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church has stood at 6th and Lombard Streets for more than 230 years.It is the oldest parcel of land continuously owned by African Americans in the United ...
Jehovah Methodist Episcopal Church, a small wooden frame church, located in the Prince Hill area of Pineville, South Carolina, was founded in the late 1800’s by a small group that laid the foundation ...
An Oklahoman has made history as the first Native American to be elected to the position of bishop in the United Methodist Church, the nation's second largest Protestant denomination. The Rev. David ...
ATLANTA - It was a joyous Sunday morning at Sweet Auburn's Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church where a historical marker had just been erected. Big Bethel is the oldest African American ...
Wilma Blewett Puich has just finished a pictorial history of the Methodist Churches of Butte. It was recently hung in the Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 1621 Thornton Ave. She has donated the ...
The stained-glass windows that line the walls of Trinity United Methodist Church on Holman are vibrant works of art that tell the story of survival. They are mesmerizing to behold while sitting in a ...
They say a doctor’s handwriting can often be hard to read, but Dr. Dwight Wade Jr.’s history of Church Street United Methodist Church is drawing praises by church members for its readability. And like ...
In 1908, the year the bell tower was added, the congregation gathered in front of the Salmon Creek Methodist Church dressed in their Sunday finest. The church later was moved from this location to the ...
The constriction of congregations and the mergers and closings of parishes is not new, nor has it been confined to any single neighborhood, or, indeed, even to Milwaukee. Add in churches that ...