First
United
Methodist
ChurchGeorgetown, Texas
Making Disciples of Jesus Christ for the Transformation of the World
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors
410 East University Avenue, Georgetown, Texas 78626 512.863.2370
Church History
Georgetown’s First United Methodist Church began in La Grange on December 6, 1849, when the Annual Texas Conference assigned James W. Lloyd to organize Georgetown Mission Church of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Methodist missionaries had been in Texas for 12 years at this time. In 1835, William B. Travis appealed to Methodist officials to send preachers to “this benighted land". The church responded in 1837 with three missionaries for all the inhabited areas of Texas.
Denominations in 1873 consisted of Methodist, Presbyterian (in the process of building a church), Cumberland Presbyterian and Baptist. There were no church buildings in Georgetown.
The church met at Southwestern University from 1874 until it built its own “Chapel” on the southwest corner of Southwestern University’s original campus in 1882. The cornerstone of the present church was laid March 9, 1892. Four large, composite sets of leaded, stained-glass windows of Gothic Revival characteristics and a number of small, high windows were installed in the sanctuary. Construction was completed in 1893. Formal dedication of the sanctuary took place the third Sunday of October in 1896.
Growth in the church in the late 1970s and early 1980s led to various building projects. The Thatcher and Genevieve Atkin Educational Activities Building was consecrated on Sunday, May 17, 1987.
The McKinney Ministry Center, located east of the Sanctuary on the Northwest corner of University Avenue and Ash Street, was consecrated in May 2006.
Portions of this history were documented in "The First United Methodist Church", Georgetown, Texas by Clara Scarbrough, 1997.
First United Methodist Church 1893-1930
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Sunday School
9:45 - 10:45, All Ages
Nursery Available
Worship Services
8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
in the Sanctuary
11:00 a.m. in the
McKinney Ministry Center
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