This congregation was organized as Friendship M. E. Church by Thomas Sweatinger, before Byromville was incorporated. Two structures, located elsewhere, were built before 1855, when a wooden church was built at this location. Construction of the present church began in 1908, though it wasn’t completed until 1912. Reverend Charles G. Earnest was pastor at the time.
My Father was the pastor there from 1965 to 1970. My older brother threw a softball and broke the top of the stain glass window on the left.
The insurance company did not want pay up because a “prechers kid”
did it…..then Miss Ella got involved. There were not problems after that!