Union Chapel Methodist Church Eatonton GA
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Who we are
Union Chapel Methodist Church in Eatonton, Georgia is a Christian congregation serving the Eatonton community and seeking, engaging, and encouraging others through a life-changing Christian journey.
We seek to be a loving, friendly community that worships God, and serves others. We place a high priority on teaching from the Bible and following the example of Jesus.
Our vision is to impact and renew Eatonton and beyond with the transforming message of Jesus Christ through words and actions.
Come as you are - we'd love to get to know you.
We seek to be a loving, friendly community that worships God, and serves others. We place a high priority on teaching from the Bible and following the example of Jesus.
Our vision is to impact and renew Eatonton and beyond with the transforming message of Jesus Christ through words and actions.
Come as you are - we'd love to get to know you.
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225 Union Chapel Road
Eatonton,
GA
31024
United States
Phone: (404) 538-7936
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Ed Baker
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225 Union Chapel Road
Eatonton,
GA
31024
United States
Phone: (404) 538-7936
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Union Chapel Methodist Church Service Times
Worship Service Sunday 11:00 am
Union Chapel Methodist Church service times last updated on the 13th of September, 2024
Union Chapel Methodist Church service times last updated on the 13th of September, 2024
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Union Chapel United Methodist Church Eatonton GA - photo courtesy of Historic Rural Churches
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Union Chapel Methodist Church History
On April 24, 1855, Irby Hudson Scott deeded to the trustees of a new newly organized and consolidated Methodist Episcopal group, three and three-quarter acres of land in the Tompkins district in Putnam County, Georgia for the purpose of a church building. Irby Scott was a very successful Putnam County planter who was also the father of Irby Goodwin Scott and Nicholas Ewing Scott, both of whom served with the Putnam Light Infantry during the terrible conflict of the Civil War. Young Irby was a prolific writer and observer of the conflict and his wartime correspondence (mostly to his father) has been published as Lee and Jackson’s Bloody Twelfth: The Letters of Irby Goodwin Scott, First Lieutenant, Company G, Putnam Light Infantry, Twelfth Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Edited by Johnny Perry Pearson.
Irby survived the war and died in 1925, but his brother did not. Nicholas Scott was killed in action at Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 10, 1864. According to the records, ‘His body was carried in his blanket, on May 11, about 200 yards to the rear of the works, and buried in a fence corner near the McCoul house‘. This was, unfortunately, not an uncommon story in the South where all military units were organized by counties and thus, filled with brothers, cousins, and neighbors.
But life goes on and the story of Union Chapel is a comforting one. There were two smaller churches in the community named Bethel and Rock Chapel. They decided to unite into a larger congregation and build a church on the land donated for that purpose by Mr. Scott, who was the first member listed on the membership roll of 1856. That building is still in excellent condition and is the one you see above. The church was built from Georgia long leaf heart pine and the sills and framework were hand-hewn and pinned. According to a history in the NGA Methodist archives, “No one living knows where the lumber was sawed. It is all the very best pine lumber, nowhere to be found today”.
Over the years, improvements have been made but she stands much as she did in 1855. In 1913, the board of trustees voted to build a new school at Union Chapel, and the school opened in November of that year. It then operated until county school consolidation forced its closure on May 25, 1946. It has since been used as Sunday School space by the church. Union Chapel has served as a source of community and spiritual comfort for generations.
From: https://www.hrcga.org/church/union-chapel-umc/
Irby survived the war and died in 1925, but his brother did not. Nicholas Scott was killed in action at Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 10, 1864. According to the records, ‘His body was carried in his blanket, on May 11, about 200 yards to the rear of the works, and buried in a fence corner near the McCoul house‘. This was, unfortunately, not an uncommon story in the South where all military units were organized by counties and thus, filled with brothers, cousins, and neighbors.
Over the years, improvements have been made but she stands much as she did in 1855. In 1913, the board of trustees voted to build a new school at Union Chapel, and the school opened in November of that year. It then operated until county school consolidation forced its closure on May 25, 1946. It has since been used as Sunday School space by the church. Union Chapel has served as a source of community and spiritual comfort for generations.
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Teach us to serve Thee
Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest: To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil and not to seek for rest; To labour and not ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do Thy will.
Union Chapel Methodist Church listing was last updated on the 13th of September, 2024
