Early Beginnings

The founding of our congregation dates back to 1879 under the name of Buchanan Methodist Episcopal Church of the South at a neighboring property just across the street from our current location. 

The original church building was lost to a fire in the Fall of 1888 and the congregation rebuilt the presently standing sanctuary in 1908. In 1939, the church reconciled and was renamed Buchanan Methodist Church until the merger with the United Brethren in 1968 where it became Buchanan United Methodist Church.

The addition of the downstairs fellowship hall and upstairs classrooms are estimated to have been joined to the back of the sanctuary building in the late 60s, and the adjacent property housing the former health clinic was purchased and refurbished in the late 90s / early 2000s as the HOPE building.

The congregation unanimously voted in November of 2023 to leave the UMC and was renamed, once again, to Buchanan Methodist Church.