History :

The year was 1908. Theodore Roosevelt was in his second term as President of the United States of America. Automobile pioneer, Henry Ford, introduced the world to the Model T Ford. And in Ellendale, Tennessee a grand experiment in Christian faith and fellowship was just getting started. The day was April 15, a day that many Americans have dreaded for years. But in 1908 that was a day for celebration. On April 15, 1908 the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Ellendale, Tennessee was established. The church started out as a group of seven people worshiping the Lord in the old Williams School at the corner of what are now Appling and Memphis-Arlington roads.