Point Marion

First Methodist Episcopal (at this site)

This Church was organized in 1843 through the efforts of Ambrose Dilliner, with four members. They had no regular place of worship, but met from place to place, such as the Polly Rose House, the Mill House, and the Ferry House. Membership by 1850 was 23. A lot for a Church was given by Mr. and Mrs. John Sadler. This lot was traded for a lot owned by the Ruble family on the north side of Penn Street, the main street of the town, later occupied by the Gallatin Bank. A building was erected for $1,000.00 in 1861 and connected with Mount Morris circuit. In 1866 transferred to the Greensboro Circuit with Mapletown and Mount Olive Churches. In 1904 it transferred from Washington District to the McKeesport District and for years was with the Fairchance Church. On January 29, 1921 the old building was sold for $12,000.00. The corner stone was laid for the new church on Broadway and Morgantown streets on September 11, 1921 and was dedicated on April 16, 1922 under the ministry of Reverend Oscar John Rishel. In 1967 First Church was yoked with Trinity of Point Marion (formerly Methodist Protestant) under the ministry of Edward Everett Donner. The membership in 1968 was 258. This Church Merged with Point Marion: Trinity to become the Point Marion United Methodist Church

Trinity Methodist Protestant Church

A church of the West Virginia Methodist Protestant Conference before 1939. Members of the Eden Church of Stewartstown, West Virginia, who had moved to Point Marion began holding meetings in the Mapel Building on the northeast corner of Main and Penn Streets in 1895. Later they moved to the First Christian Church, then to the School building on Union Street. The new Church was built in 1900-1901 and dedicated June 30, 1901. The lumber for the Church was floated down the Cheat River and sawed by the J. D. Clarke Lumber Company. The pastor, Reverend W. H. Morrison, received nineteen charter members into the Church on March 24, 1900. The parsonage was built next door to the Church in 1916. In 1935 the Church was raised and the basement constructed. Extensive remodeling was completed in 1951 and dedicated in a fiftieth anniversary service by Bishop Lloyd Christ Wicke on June 3, 1951. The Church was a part of the Avery Circuit at first and later it was on a Charge with Fallen Timbers and Nilan. In 1967 Trinity entered into a "yoked ministry" with the former Methodist Episcopal congregation of Point Marion. The membership in 1968 was 168. Merged with Point Marion: Methodist Episcopal Church in 1970 to become the Point Marion United Methodist Church.

Point Marion United Methodist Church

Point Marion: First and Point Marion: Trinity churches yoked together in 1970 to form the Point Marion United Methodist Church. In 2003 Point Marion had 285 members. In 2018, Point Marion UMC became one of 14 churches in a newly formed cooperative ministry called South Fayette Cooperative Parish, serving communities in southern Fayette County. The church houses a food pantry and a Fijian worship community.