Jackson County Churches

NAME	ADDRESS	TOWN	WEB SITE
Carancahua
Carancahua Chapel		Carancahua
Cordele
Cordele United Methodist Church		Cordele
Edna
Allen Memorial Presbyterian Church	301 W.Church Street	Edna	no longer meeting
Baptist Temple	1001 N. Wells Street	Edna	Web Site
Deliverance and Restoration Church of God in Christ	607 Carver Street	Edna	Facebook
Edna Presbyterian Church	502 Apollo Drive	Edna	Web Site
First Assembly of God	Cypress & Ed Linn	Edna	Contact
First Baptist Church	309 S. Cottonwood Street	Edna	Web Site
First Baptist Mission	411 N. Pumphrey Street	Edna
First Pentecostal Church	Apollo Drive (FM 1822)	Edna	Web Site History
First United Methodist Church	216 W. Main Street	Edna	Web Site
Iglesia Del Altisimo UPCI	111 S. Bryan Street	Edna
Iglesia Nueva Jerusalem	1201 Chase Street	Edna
Life Way Baptist Church	108 Brazos Street	Edna
Mission of Nuestra Señora del Espiritu Santo de Zuñiga	St. Agnes Church, facing Cedar Street	Edna	no longer meeting historical marker only
Mt. Olive Baptist Church	7 mi Hwy 111 N. on CR 287	Edna
New Harvest Christian Church	1016 S. East Street	Edna
New Hope Tabernacle	206 N. Ed Linn Street	Edna	Facebook
New Life Cathedral Pentecostal Church of God	301 W. Church Street	Edna	Met in the former Allen Presbyterian Church building which in 2018 is the Sanctuary
Peabody Street Church of Christ	411 Peabody Street	Edna
Redeemer Lutheran Church	504 Dugger Street	Edna	Web Site
Robinson Street Church of Christ	301 Robinson Street	Edna	Web Site
Scruggs Chapel United Methodist Church	313 N. Carver Street	Edna
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church	604 Martin Luther King Street	Edna	Facebook
St. Agnes Catholic Church	506 N. Allen Street	Edna
St. Paul Lutheran Church	108 E. Gayle Street	Edna	Web Site
The Hope Church	102 Brown Street	Edna	Facebook
The Ranch Cowboy Country Church	1960 Hwy 111 South	Edna	Web Site
Trinity Episcopal Church	102 W. Church Street	Edna
Trinity Full Gospel	514 Dugger Street	Edna
World Outreach Bible Church	1014 S. Wells (Hwy 111 S)	Edna
Francitas
Francitas Baptist Church		Francitas
Church of Christ		Francitas
Francitas Union Church		Francitas	No longer meeting
Ganado
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church	108 S Sixth St.	Ganado	Web Site
Christian Living International Outreach Ministries	123 S. Third	Ganado
Church of Christ	Corner Gayle & Sutherland	Ganado
First Baptist Church	400 Buechman Road	Ganado	Web Site
First Christian Church		Ganado
First United Methodist Church	200 Twin Oaks Drive	Ganado	Web Site
Living Water Baptist Church	501 N. Third Street	Ganado
Oakmon Chapel Methodist Church		Ganado	No longer meeting
Prosperity Missionary Baptist Church	130 Oberg Street	Ganado
Soul’s Harbor Baptist Church	Hwy 172 South	Ganado
St. James Lutheran Church	900 S. Third (Hwy 172)	Ganado
La Ward
La Ward Baptist Church	West Hwy 172 South	La Ward
La Ward United Pentecostal	52 La Ward Street	La Ward
La Salle
St. Theresa Mission		La Salle
Lolita
First Baptist Church	84 Stegall Street	Lolita	Web Site
Lolita United Methodist	College Street	Lolita
Morales
Morales Baptist Church	239 CR 2831	Edna	Facebook
Rought's Chapel Church		Morales	No longer meeting
Texana
Texana Presbyterian Church		Texana	No longer meeting
Vanderbilt
Church of Christ	Garcitas Street	Vanderbilt
Pure Light Baptist Church	6342 FM 616	Vanderbilt
St. John Bosco Catholic Church		Vanderbilt
St. Paul's Lutheran Church		Vanderbilt Koop Settlement
Vanderbilt Baptist Church	304 S. Victoria	Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church	Fifth Street	Vanderbilt	No longer meeting

Special Program Slated By Jackson Methodist Churches
By Hal Cherry

Edna—The 150^th anniversary of Methodism in Jackson County will be observed Sunday as the pastors and congregations of the seven current Methodist churches in the county will hold a special program in the First United Methodist Church in Edna.

Bishop Ernest T. Dixon Jr. of San Antonio, recently assigned as bishop of the Southwest Texas Methodist Conference and the Rio Grande Methodist Conference, will be the guest speaker.

The day will begin at 10 a. m. with a reception and coffee and donuts in the Youth Building. Then Bishop Dixon will speak at the 11 a. m. morning worship. Also special music will be presented by a mixed choir.

There will be a catered barbecue dinner at noon in the Fellowship Hall. Then the observance will conclude with the viewing of exhibits and historical memorabilia from the various Methodist churches of the county.

The pastors and Methodist churches expected to participate in the day’s events include the host pastor, the Rev. Russell Moon and the Edna church; the Rev. Bernard Ritchea, pastor of the Ganado and Cordele churches; the Rev. Billy Young, pastor of the Scruggs Chapel of Edna and the Rought’s Chapel of Morales; the Rev. J. D. Brown, pastor of the Oakmon Chapel of Ganado; and the Rev. Calvin Peterson, pastor of the Lolita church.

Events for the countywide celebration have been planned by the Committee on Records and History of the host church with Mrs. T. K. Simons as chairman, and including Mrs. Homer Baugh, Miss Jessie Lee Pumphrey, Mrs. I. E. Walker, Mrs. Harry Mauritz, Miss Meadle Pumphrey, Mrs. Garvice Shoemate, Aubrey Stalling, and Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Gayle Jr.

In his book, History of Early Methodism in Texas, Macum Phelan states, in brief, that a group of families from North Alabama, who settled on the Navidad River in what is now Jackson County in 1830—150 years ago—were Methodists.

The historian added hey continued to hold services and exercise their faith.

This is considered the beginning in Methodism in Jackson County. It is known that during the early years, groups of Methodists met in homes and in brush arbors for religious services at several places along the river.

Then, according to records, from those families emerged the Texana Methodist Church, which was organized at old Texana, the first real town in the county, in 1839.

The late I. T. Taylor, local historian, in his history of the county wrote that was the first “organized” Methodist church in Jackson County and that the first Methodist church building was constructed at Texana in 1851.

Taylor also names the Rev. S. C. A. Rogers, known as a “local preacher,” as the “Father of Methodism in Jackson County.”

Rogers is listed as one of the 1830-31 pioneers who settled in the current Ganado area and helped organize Methodist congregations at Texana, Mustang and Rogers Chapel and preached in various areas of Jackson County.

Taylor relates that most members of the first organized Texana Methodist Church moved to Edna around 1882 when the county seat was moved here and Texana was gradually abandoned.

The histories of the seven current Methodist churches in Jackson County show, in brief, that the Edna First United Methodist Church founders, after meeting temporarily in the Presbyterian church and in several homes, constructed the first Methodist building here in 1885.

It was on property donated by Mrs. Lucy Flournoy and was an outgrowth of the Texana church as Taylor wrote. Then the current church building was constructed on the present site in 1911.

The present Ganado First United Methodist Church was formally organized as a Methodist Episcopal Church South in May of 1880 and was called Rogers Chapel in tribute to the Rev. S. C. A Rogers.

The church met in a log cabin located on the old Rogers’ homestead about two miles northwest of the current city of Ganado. Sometime after Ganado was established on the railroad in 1882-83, and named, the name of the church was changed to the Ganado Methodist Church. The congregation has moved four times as its membership increased and finally constructed the current modern building in 1959.

Two of the other older Methodist churches are the Rought’s Chapel Church of Morales, which was organized in January of 1882. The building was near the Chase Cemetery for some 25 years. Then John Chase gave the church land across current Highway 111 and the building was moved there in 1907.

An official of the Scruggs Chapel Methodist Church in Edna reports the congregation was organized in 1883 and met for years in homes and various buildings. Then the current church building was completed in 1913 on land donated by Bob Smith.

The current Lolita United Methodist Church was organized in 1913 and its first building had been put up in 1911 as a school on land donated by the C. S. Mitchells.

Records show the school there closed and the properties reverted to the Mitchells and then were donated to the Methodist church in 1913. The church disbanded in the late 1920s and reactivated in 1940 in the same building. Then the present church was constructed in 1975.

Records show the Oakmon Chapel Methodist Church in Ganado was organized with 10 members in 1919 and the congregation secured the old Ganado Christian Church building in 1920, moved it to their property and remodeled it.

The current Cordele United Methodist Church was originally organized about 1920. The church building is a structure moved to Cordele in 1947 from Bastrop and remodeled.

History, as often, is incomplete, but there were Methodist congregations, some with church buildings, in many of the early small towns in Jackson County that no longer exist as towns, but are well known as communities.

It is known, for example, that in the early history of the county there were Methodist meetings held in Mustang, Red Bluff, Morales, Carancahua, El Toro, Bacontown, near Navidad and at Bonham Chapel.

Victoria Advocate, September 27, 1980

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Created Apr 20, 2018	Updated Dec. 21, 2018

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