Brownfield

Shortly after a revival meeting at Hutchinson School house in 1882, was conducted by Reverend John McCarty of Fairchance and Reverend George McCollum of Uniontown, it was decided to build a Union Church at Brownfield. This building was taken over by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1889, but the church continued holding services there until 1897. Then the new building, with an addition in 1926, was dedicated as the Brownfield Methodist Protestant Church. It was always on a circuit. There was the Fairchance/Monroe Circuit, which included the Fairchance, Hopwood, and Brownfield Churches. There was the Fairchance Circuit, which included Brown's Chapel, White Rock and Brownfield. From 1959 to 1965 there was the Brownfield-White Rock Circuit which included Brownfield, White Rock and Hutchinson Churches. Since 1965 there was the Hopwood-Brownfield Circuit which includes the Hopwood and Brownfield Churches. The membership in 1968 was 160. The membership on January 1, 2003, was 128. In 2018, Brownfield UMC became one of 14 churches in a newly formed cooperative ministry called South Fayette Cooperative Parish, serving communities in southern Fayette County.