Douglas First Methodist Church was founded in
Douglas, Georgia
Douglas is a city in Coffee County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 11,722. Douglas is the county seat of Coffee County and the core city of the Table of United States Micr ...
in August 1888.
History
The early history of Douglas First United Methodist Church was published in ''A Centennial History'' by Elizabeth Lott and others in 1988.
In May 2023, the church disaffiliated from the
United Methodist Church
The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant Christian denomination, denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was ...
's South Georgia Conference and joined the
Global Methodist Church
The Global Methodist Church (GM Church, or GMC) is a Methodism, Methodist denomination within Protestant Christianity subscribing to views that were propounded by the conservative Confessing Movement. The Christian denomination, denomination is ...
.
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Douglas First Methodist Church
Buildings and structures in Coffee County, Georgia
Methodist churches in Georgia (U.S. state)
1888 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Global Methodist churches in the United States
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