for Cross Lanes United Methodist Church. It is celebrating its 150th Anniversary. While the actual date when folks started meeting under the guidance of a pastor from the Methodist Episcopal Church (South) is uncertain as of this posting, though I hope to find out some time during the year, the April 1858 date has been settled upon because that was when they purchased land.The Church is very different now from what it was for the first 80 years of its life. At the beginning, it was a small rural church assigned to a circuit. The Preacher normally only came 1 Sunday a month. The rest of the time, the folks met for Sunday School only.
Now it is one of the larger churches in the West Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church (anywhere from 19th to 21st depending upon which measure you use).
It has had a glorious time since about 1935-6 with a steady growth in all aspects of church life, until just very recently. Now, well, we don't know what with the changing economy in the Kanawha Valley and all. Things could change. But perhaps the change will be for the better.
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