Mims Chapel United Methodist Church: UMW Officers for 2010

History of our Church

The first religious gathering place of the original pioneer families of the community is said to have been at the site of a sunken boulder, next to which the first crude log meeting house was constructed. Because of this boulder, the first structure was know as the "Old Rock Church".

About 1871, a larger one-room frame building replaced the log structure and the name was changed to Mims Chapel, after two brothers who were instrumental in procuring the six-acre tract of land. This white painted, one-room church remained in use until 1936, when a bad list to the structure necessitated its being torn down. The new church was built from the same material, except for necessary additions.

In January 1969, the old wooden building was torn down and replaced by a modern brick structure.

Mims Chapel maintains its strong historical background , while striving ever-forward to help spread God's glory and kingdom. Praise God in the highest! May Mims Chapel forever be the "Old Rock Church".

Written by: Fred Mckenzie

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

UMW Officers for 2010

UMW Meeting, Today @ 10:00 am.

Our ladies met today for monthly meeting and discussed upcoming events and business of the church.

Installation of New UMW officers
by Joyce Barnes.

Mims Chapel UMW has received an invitation from Wiley College to the "President's Spring Convocation".
The invitation reads:

Dr. Haywood L. Strickland requests the pleasure of your attendance at the President's Spring Convocation on Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 10:30 am in the Julius S. Scott, Sr. Chapel.

Speaker: Bishop Gregory V. Palmer, President
The United Methodist Council of Bishops
Resident Bishop
Illinois Great Rivers Annual Conference
Springfield, Illinois

Please R.S.V.P. by Jan. 26, 2010
Melody Sheridan Patterson (903)927-3391 or
mpatterson@wileyc.edu

Mims Chapel United Methodist Church

History of our Church

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

UMW Officers for 2010

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