About Us

Together we are a community of believers. What does that mean, the word community? We believe that together in fellowship we grow closer to God and one another. The bible speaks about iron sharpening iron. We believe that together we grow stronger. We are a community of believers.

We strive to be a church without walls. Jesus calls for us to go outside the walls to reach the lost and the broken. It is there that the lost will be found. Most churches find it is comfortable to stay within the walls, but we make it an effort to be like the church from the book of Acts, to see our city changed.

We highly value our relationships with one another. We look to grow through fellowship, and ultimately growing closer to God. We value the word of God, and the leadership of the Holy Spirit. We look to extend grace to all of the lost and broken, and lead those with no hope to the hope of Jesus Christ.

In 1852, the First United Methodist Chuch was erected on East Franklin Street. Construted of clapboards, it was 16 X 20 feet, and served the congregation for four years. A that time, a second structure was built on an adjoining lot.

The second building of the First United Methodist Church was built in 1856. It took 2 years to build the church and the structure was made out of cypress and cedar logs chipped brought by ox cart from Shreveport, Louisiana and Jacksonville, Texas. It took two to three weeks to make each round trip. The second structure served the congregation as a place of worship for 37 years.