Juniata

Reverend George Budd, pastor of the Fairchance Charge, started Methodist Protestant Services in the Juniata School on December 1, 1935. A Church was organized and officers elected January 3, 1936. The H. C. Frick Company gave the congregation permission to use one of the company houses as a Church, and it was occupied in November 1936. Application was made to The Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Church in 1936 and the congregation was officially received into the Conference as the Juniata Methodist Protestant Church. In 1957 the congregation was confronted with the need for enlarged facilities. Dr. William Hogg, the District Superintendent of the McKeesport District, inquired of the Union Supply Company about the use of the vacant Union Supply Store building in Juniata. As a result the building was donated for use as the Juniata Methodist Church. This building was remodeled as a Church and was occupied July 13, 1958. In 1968 this Church was a part of the four-point Upper Middletown Circuit, and it had a membership of 67. Juniata and Phillips merged in 1983 to form the Juniata United Methodist Church. The membership on January 1, 2003 was 84. In 2019, Juniata UMC became one of 14 churches in a newly formed cooperative ministry called South Fayette Cooperative Parish, serving communities in southern Fayette County Juniata meets in a converted store with a fellowship hall upstairs. The congregation loves to worship and fellowship together.