Faith United Methodist Church and Spirit of Peace site
In “Tour stop 4 — history”
The 1921 county history reported 140 Methodist members and a Sunday school of 125, with George W. Heine as superintendent. These are period counts, not present-day totals. The centennial history adds the less visible work that sustained the building: a basement begun in 1909, Ladies Aid support for utilities, and repairs after the June 1944 flood tore away its west and north basement walls. Notes: The guide’s 1969 shorthand should not erase the Winslow congregation’s separate 1968 union with Hooper. Parsonage dates differ: 1891 in the centennial book, 1892 in the tour. The 1892 conference account supports existence by that reporting period. The exact legal closure date of Faith and sale-deed details were not independently established. Do not infer disaffiliation or a particular reason for closure. The 1976 Methodist section’s 1870 Presbyterian-building date conflicts with Joel Warner’s 1880 dedication account; the expansion does not repeat the 1870 date. The 2026 book and tour overlap substantially; repetition between them is not independent confirmation. The January 1908 report calls the other temporary church school German Lutheran, without naming its congregation; this record does not assign it to Zion or St. John’s.