Connunity

In the spring of 1938 Mrs. Ethel Stewart asked three members of the staff of the McCrum Community House, a Board of Missions project of the Pittsburgh Conference, to start a Sunday School in Evans Manor. They met in a schoolhouse on West Penn Boulevard. A charter was granted to the Evans Manor Methodist Church on June 13, 1948. Deaconess Bessie K. Van Scyoc was the pastor. There were 35 charter members. A lot was purchased on the corner of Edison Street and West Penn Boulevard and a basement unit was built and dedicated June 5, 1949. Work commenced on the sanctuary in November 1961, and it was dedicated on April 14, 1962. After the retirement of Miss Van Scyoc in 1957 the Church has had different Circuit relationships. In1967 it has been part of the Upper Middletown Charge. In 1998 Evans Manor and Hutchinson Churches merged to form Smock: Community. It later became part of the Uniontown Larger Parish. The membership in 1968 was 80. The membership on January 1, 2001 was 167. In 1998 Evans Manor and Hutchinson merged to form the Community United Methodist Church It later became part of the Uniontown Larger Parish consisting of Community, Coolspring, Juanita and Upper Middletown. January 1, 2003 it has 176 members. In 2018, Uniontown: Community UMC became one of 14 churches in a newly formed cooperative ministry called South Fayette Cooperative Parish, serving communities in southern Fayette County