Methodist-Presbyterian Church?

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[AdirondackRuby]

Interesting. I was raised in a Presbyterian church, but we were always going to the Methodists for choral services or to the Wesleyans for VBS. All the churches in my little town come together for community events, they even run a Food Pantry together.

[spiderb]

I used to attend Orthodox services in a Presbyterian church that they let us make use of, even let the Orthodox community set up our own full time chapel in the basement

[ddt]

In my brother's town in rural Alberta there is actually a tiny joined Catholic and Orthodox church, both churches were shrinking in size, had financial difficulties, and were primarily elderly Eastern European people.

[gamger]

I was in a Southern Baptist Church while I was stationed in Norfolk, VA when another church in the area was maliciously burned to the ground. Our pastor went to their congregation and offered the use of our building while they were sorting things out. No one cared that their congregation was racially the opposite of ours, that their theology was nearly an exact mirror, or even that they brought drums (drums!) into the sanctuary. Everyone involved seemed to understand that we couldn't afford the luxury of division.

[brittmai]

This exact circumstance happened in my small hometown, only it's a Lutheran/Presbyterian Church. Both Churches fell on hard times. The Presbyterian Church burned down, and both congregations were small. They joined forces and now meet together at the Lutheran Church.

[itscoleperkins]

I love that! We need to see more of this in the body!

[ejautumn]

We have a lot of uniting and united churches here in Aotearoa / New Zealand, you see a lot of Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Anglican churches joining together. They have interesting interactions with their "parent" denominations though, eould be interesting to see a video on a uniting church or two

[heyitsevan]

Very interesting. I hope there is an extended video going more in-depth on this place.

[tatedejong]

Matt! No way. I spent most of my teen years going to that Church! The former pastor there was my Mentor when I was confirmed. Glad to see you could make it out to good ole Philip 😁

[Roosimpson]

I have a friend who is pastor of a Methodist church in Ponca City, OK doing the same with the Presbyterians there. Christians working together and not against each other is such a good thing. Thanks for sharing this!

[lachy]

Funny you found this in the US. I was raised in the Uniting Church in Australia, which formed a union between the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist churches in Australia back in 1977.

I lost faith during my late teens, but am sort of trying to see if I can rekindle my faith. Nice to see ecumenism alive and well in different parts of the world. :)

[Joker]

The catholic parish I grew up at rented out some of their hall space to a small non-denominational church.

[migdeliaarvizu]

I never understood why us Christians get upset about others beliefs. I am Catholic and I am fully aware that other religions have other beliefs and I totally respect them. As a Catholic I feel like I have been criticized about my religion. I tell people that I respect them please respect me. I think if we believe in God we are brothers and sisters in Christ. It’s the devil trying to cause division between Christians.

[RynoAM]

That is really cool! I'm a Free Methodist pastor in the Pacific Northwest and our superintendent has talked about ideas like this. I love the idea of multiple Christian communities using the same facility, even if they don't see eye to eye on all theological matters.

[jc_pam]

We have Uniting Church in Australia, created by a merger between Presbyterian, Methodist, and congregational churches. There still is a Presbyterian denominational body but as far as I know we don’t have Methodists in Australia. UCA is known for its theological and social liberalism.

[Apriluser]

Many of these mainline, historic churches have been in decline since the late ‘60s and now no longer makes sense to have the overhead cost of two buildings. Good to share resources. But, alas, they will most likely continue to decline and not exist in about 10 years. On the other hand, my husband is a priest in a new ACNA parish and it’s growing - thanks be to God! We’d love to have a building like this. We are meeting in a shopping mall unit! 😀

[Joshlama]

You should come out to Australia to see the Uniting Church of Australia. This church denomination came out of a combination of the most Methodist and most Congregational churches, and two-thirds of the Presbyterian churches to combine as Uniting. The denomination leans toward progressive theology, although there are some great evangelical churches such as Malvern Uniting Church in South Australia where Tim Hein leads.

[matiasgamalieltolmosuarez]

That's very Methodist in architecture of ancient methodism, you can read the book "Catalogue of Architectural plans for churches and parsonages" by Methodist Episcopal church

[williamshirey]

I belong to a UCC (German Reform) church in Western Pennsylvania. For its first hundred years it shared a building and Pastor with a Lutheran Church. There were a lot of these Union Churches. A few still share.

[stanbrown]

In Canada, the Methodists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians formed the United Church of Canada in the 1920s :)