Glendale Congregational Methodist Church

Congregational Methodist churches grew out of a split. The denomination formed in 1852 in Georgia, when several congregations left the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to join Methodist doctrine to congregational government; each church calls its own pastor and owns its property. Its school, the Congregational Methodist Bible School, opened in Dallas in 1944. The Handbook of Texas says the church bought a campus at Tehuacana in the early 1950s, opened Westminster Junior College and Bible Institute there in 1953, and moved the school to Florence, Mississippi, in 1971.

What the plaque says

Glendale Congregational Methodist Church Organized in 1917, Glendale Congregational Methodist Church began serving the community when the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, discontinued services. The congregation met in the old Methodist church building and then in the Baptist church until erecting a new building in the 1930s, almost exclusively with donations and volunteer work. Over the years, pastors from Westminster College served the congregation and the church campus expanded with classrooms, a fellowship hall, and other improvements. Through local programs and mission work, the church continues to contribute to the community through service and faith. (2018)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas Prison Museum — 25 mi
  A Huntsville museum on the history of the Texas prison system, where the electric chair Old Sparky, used for 361 executions from 1924 to 1964, is shown beside the rodeo and the escapes.
• Sam Houston Memorial Museum — 26 mi
  A 15-acre Huntsville campus with Sam Houston's Woodland Home and the Steamboat House where he died in 1863, a museum, an education center gallery and free grounds open dawn to dusk.

More markers nearby

• Thornton Church Community — 2.3 mi
• Civilian Conservation Corps Camp at Trinity — 5.5 mi
• Charles Nesbitt "Charlie" Wilson — 6.5 mi
• Trinity Volunteer Fire Department — 6.5 mi