In the spring of 1857, Mrs. John Huff and Orlando Young began a Sunday School which met in their homes. Two years later Rev. Albert Lawrence started a Methodist Episcopal Sunday School in the Robinson School House which was across the road from the John Hauschild home. The first Coal City United Methodist Church was a Sunday School organized in 1875 by Oliver Drawn.

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In 1877 another Sunday School with worship service began at the village school house. The first services were Sunday afternoon with the Pastor being paid by raising money via church dinners and festivals. The Robinson School Sunday School ceased and the Coal City United Methodist Church was growing and the village schoolhouse was too small. Reorganization took place and a meeting was held under the Methodist Episcopal banner on the second floor of the Key’s Drug Store / Opera House / Coal City Pharmacy. Coal City United Methodist Church grew to the point that a building was started and the ministry took off.

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Fast forward over a hundred years and on September 20, 1992, the congregation voted to build church on a new site, the site that was chosen was on McArdle Road. Two building projects later, we stand ready to serve the community and world. Our duty as a church is not to our church alone, but to the community and all humanity. Our duty is not merely the preservation of the church as we know it today, but to the preservation and improvement of the church for our children and grandchildren. Let us stand together in renewed confidence; united in our heritage of the past and in our hopes for the future; determined that this church we love shall lead us into new frontiers of missions and mercy. We have taken the first steps on our journey. Let us continue.

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Feel free to find out more about the United Methodist Church with these additional links:

United Methodist Church: www.umc.org

Illinois Great Rivers Conference: www.igrc.org