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WELCOME!

Acworth UMC invites you to join a faith community begun over 160 years ago. Many have gone before us in faith. Now is our time to take up the yoke of Jesus Christ and offer his love to current and future generations.

Beginnings 1858-1905

The church, formerly called Acworth Methodist Episcopal Church South, was started in 1858 by South Carolina settlers. 

​Constructed of timber hauled by night from Burnt Hickory Ridge, it stood at the corner of Dixie Avenue and Lombardy Street. T
he church building served as a hospital during Sherman's march to Atlanta. Sherman was said to have no compunction about setting the torch to church buildings in his path. He gave orders to spare Acworth Methodist Church not because it was ministering to the wounded, but because the Masonic Lodge Hall was located on the second floor. When Sherman set off for Atlanta, Acworth Methodist was the only church left standing in the town.

The foundation of the building was on the receiving end of a cannonball strike, leaving a large hole which was never repaired. When the building was finally razed for new construction, bulldozers turned up human bones, uniform buttons and other artifacts which attested to the fact that some of those who suffered death in the Civil War were buried right on the grounds.

The bricks from the old building were ground up and used to fill in the site for the new building. 
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Growing Strong
​1905-1961

A new building was erected in 1905 on the corner of Main and Morningside streets at a cost of $3500. At the time, the church had 80 members. The building was described as "A handsome brick edifice located in the heart of the city and furnished with new up-to-date pews and electric lights. The site of this church is marked by the remaining church bell, found on the corner in Frana Brown park next to the current Acworth post office.
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Discovering the Hill of the Lord
1958-1967

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In the early 1950s plans to relocate or acquire adjacent property for an addition began to evolve as the age of the automobile provided congregants from a larger area, but no parking to accomodate them. Credit is given to Mrs. Ray Harrison as being the first to think of the present site as suitable for a new church. On May 23, 1957, the 85th Congress approved the sale of 7.4 acres of Army Corps of Engineer owned land situated high above Lake Acworth with a commanding a view of Allatoona Lake.

On the present site, named "The Hill of the Lord" by WP Sprayberry, the largest church building in the city was constructed. 

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The first building on the current site was a sanctuary at one end of what is now known as Building C, the Education building.  This was used as a temporary sanctuary until Building B (today's McClure Hall) was built in the 1960s. Today it houses conference rooms and offices.
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In the mid-1960s, the Chapel of Prayer was constructed on the shores of Lake Acworth. This charming place of worship was renovated in the mid 2010s and is still used by the church today.
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Making a Home On the Hill
1968-1995



​Not long after the Chapel of Prayer was dedicated, it became obvious that Acworth UMC needed more space. In 1967, today's Building B, or McClure Hall, was built as the new sanctuary. 
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In 2015, a massive renovation transformed the space into a beautiful multipurpose worship and meeting area. McClure Hall is named in honor of Charlotte & Fannie B. McClure, lifelong members of the church and prominent area school teachers.
Not long after the new sanctuary was constructed, Building D, known as the Family Life Center was built. 

Making Disciples For the Transformation of the World
1996-Today

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Ground was broken on today's sanctuary, Building A, on September 18, 1994. Construction delays occurred due to rainy weather and a steel shortage as Atlanta prepared for the 1996 Olympics. On December 10, 1995, members toured the new building and held a moving first worship service at 6pm in the unheated and unfinished sanctuary to praise the Lord and to ask God's blessings on this house of worship. 
Pastors of Acworth United Methodist Church
1861      Andrew J. Deavors
1868     William J. Scott
1871      James R. Mayson
1873     William A. Simmons
1874     TSL Harwell
1876     WR Foote
1877     Miles W. Arnold
1878     Joseph J. Singleton
1880     David J. Weems
1881     William J. Scott
1882     HM Quillian
1884     OC Simmons
1886     QL Qoorwn
1888     WW Oslin
1889     JM Owens
1892     WT Caldwell
1894     HL Edmondson
1895     MD Smith
1897     EH Wood
1899     WA Simmons
1903     WA Farris
1904     Oscar L. Kelley
1906     WG Crawley
1909     AC Cantrell
1910     WD Parrish
1911     George W. Barrett
1913     EA Ware
1915     JR Speer
1916     SH Dimon
1919     Frank E. Jenkins
1920     CF Hughes
1923     Harvey C. Holland Sr.
1927     William Greenway
1927     JW Lee
1930     Walter Millican
1933     AG Shankle
1935     R. Parks Segars
​1938     Charles L. Allen
1940     JM Guest
1943     Barrett Lee Barton
1945     GB Henderson
1948     Rev. Henry Oscar Green Jr.
1951     Charles D. Read
1954     Rev. Lewis Cass Davis Jr.
1958     Hunter J. Bassett
1960     Rev. Willie Mack Tribble Jr.
1966     Rev. Rudy Rich Baker Jr.
1970     Rev. Nathaniel Harrison Long
1975     Rev. Roy Allen Green Jr.
1977     Rev. Charles Douglas Brown
1979     Rev.James Hughes Lowry Jr.
1991     Rev. Dr. Terry Eugene Walton
1995     Rev. Max Carter Caylor
1997     Rev. Dr. Medwin Thomas Roach
2005    Rev. Dr. Mike Lee Cash
2008    Rev. Brian Thomas Butler
2011     Rev. James Ray Gwin
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4340 Collins Circle
Acworth, GA 30101
770.974.3312
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