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Free Methodist Church
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
The Free Methodist congregation had conducted worship services in rural schools and homes prior to moving to Mount Ayr
in 1927. After a sucession of pastors, the congregation went through a period where there wasn't a pastor. They buit a
basement on the northwest corner of East Madison and Tyler Streets in 1947, where they held services. The church building
was completed over the basement in 1951, with a dedication ceremony on May 20, 1951. A parsonage was built in 1954.
Reverend Ward CAMPBELL assumed the pulpit in 1954, and served the congregation well for twenty years.
Free Methodist Church, circa 1960's
courtesy of Bill & Thelma Rusk & Mike Avitt
Reverend Leslie SELLERS was the pastor of the Free Methodist Church in 1975.
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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, June 19, 1980
Rev. Lewis HUNTER has been assigned again to the pastorate at the Mount Ayr Free Methodist Church.
SOURCE: TERRY, Jack R. A Centennial History of Mount Ayr, Iowa: 1875 - 1975 p. 109.
Mount Ayr Record-News Mount Ayr. 1975
2009 Photograph by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2009
Compilation by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2009; updated November of 2012
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