The Minooka United Methodist Church was created almost 150 years ago, in a village called Minooka. Minooka is 10 miles west of Joliet and 10 miles east of Morris, IL.

Minooka Methodist Episcopal Church was first organized in 1856, where it held it’s first services in a store on Mondamin and Osceola Streets. Later it was moved to the school. Ten years later, the first church building was built on the present sanctuary site. It stood until a tornado flattened it on May 26th, 1917. The day after the tornado, members of the church as well as a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, joined efforts to rebuild the church. Even the women of the Ladies Guild joined the efforts to salvage materials to be reused in the building of the new church. The new church was ready for occupancy by the following Dec. The stained glass windows we see today in the sanctuary were given in memory of a doctor, a blacksmith, a prominent businessman, a war hero, a minister, a little girl, a little boy, and another minister and his wife. The church underwent major remodeling in 1972 with the bell being removed from the tower due to leaks. In 1982, the sanctuary was expanded as we see it today.