2017 ANNIVERSARY

CHURCHES

COMMISSION ON

ARCHIVES AND HISTORY

WNC Annual Conference

The United Methodist Church

Bethel UMC

Davie County

Organized 1816

Inadvertently omitted last year

Jackson UMC

Guilford County

Organized 1817

Early African-American congregation

Jackson UMC

Guilford County

Organized 1817

Early African-American congregation

Prospect UMC

Union County

Organized 1817

1867

• Civil War ended in 1865

• The Methodist Episcopal Church (Northern

Methodists) sent missionaries into North

Carolina, with the goal of organizing new

congregations

• Predominantly African-American

congregations were formed

• Predominantly Caucasian congregations

of Union sympathizers were formed

1867

• Result—new congregations being formed

in what is now WNC Annual Conference in

all three branches of Methodism

• Methodist Episcopal Church (both

predominantly African-American and

predominantly Caucasian)

• Methodist Episcopal Church, South

• Methodist Protestant Church

Center Grove UMC (MECS)

Cabarrus County

Organized 1867

First UMC, Dallas (ME, then MECS)

Gaston County

Organized 1867

Little Laurel UMC (ME)

Ashe County

Organized 1867

Mount Zion UMC (MP)

Stokes County

Organized 1867

Oak Grove UMC (MECS)

Rowan County

Organized 1867

Wells Spring UMC, Forest City (ME)

Rutherford County

Organized 1867