The origin of Scranton’s first Methodist Church reaches back to the Battle of Wyoming in the late 1700s and a Kingston blacksmith who credited God with his survival. A 1968 Scranton Times article ...

If a community's history is a woven tapestry of hues, then the fabric of Chattanooga features a golden thread highlighting its historic houses of worship. With late spring's weather offering the ideal ...

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 ...

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Stephen F. Austin’s State University Center for Regional Heritage Research has worked on the Marshall First Methodist Church over the years to help preserve its history and ...

Throughout the extensive history of the Church, numerous events of lasting significance have occurred. Each week marks anniversaries of impressive milestones, unforgettable tragedies, amazing triumphs ...

This is Part 2 of a look at the 100-year history of Nimmonsburg Methodist Church. See Part 1 here. While fire may have destroyed the Nimmonsburg Methodist Church in 1922, it did not stop the church ...

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 ...

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 ...

In honor of Black History Month, the Union-Tribune has partnered with the San Diego History Center to present items each day in February on local Black history. In 1887 Bethel African Methodist ...

During the Mississippi United Methodist Conference recently held in Tupelo, 189 churches statewide disaffiliated from the UMC members because of what local ministers described as differing religious ...