Dalton First United Methodist Church can trace its history back to before the founding of the city itself. The first Methodist missionaries came to this area before it was taken from the Cherokee.
Today, the church celebrates its 165th anniversary with an old-fashioned tent meeting on the Dalton Green, and we do mean old-fashioned.
Robin Lindsey, the church’s pastor, will be preaching a sermon based on the handwritten notes of a sermon delivered by Levi Brotherton, the church’s first pastor, more than a century ago. And he’ll be doing it while wearing clothing typical for a preacher in the 1840s.
The service will also feature music that would have been played at a Methodist service in the 1840s.
You don’t have to be a church member or even a Methodist to attend. The public is invited.
So if you don’t have a church, we encourage you to attend. And even if you have a church, you might want to skip one Sunday service and see what’s happening on the Dalton Green. For those interested in history, this promises to be a notable event, and it would be a nice display of ecumenical brotherhood and support for a Dalton institution if the community came out to celebrate the church’s anniversary.
Opinion
August 5, 2012
Church has played an important role in Dalton’s history
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