Organizations & Ministries

  1. Administrative Board
  2. Board of Trustees
  3. Finance Committee
  4. Pastor Parish Committee
  5. United Methodist Men
  6. United Methodist Women
  7. Youth Group
  8. Sunday School
  9. Chior

About Our Church

We welcome all people of all ages to Liberty UMC. We have a traditional choir, an active Sunday school program for all ages and a wonderful handicap accessible worship space built in the early 1900's. We gather as a people of God to be formed by God's Word and to be sent into the world to witness God's Grace through Jesus Christ.

United Methodist preaching and teaching is grounded in Scripture, informed by Christian tradition, enlivened in personal experience, and tested by reason.

Scripture - Our primary source for preaching and teaching.
Tradition - The experience of the generations shaping our worship.
Experience - Personal experience of God’s work of revelation through us and those before us.
Reason - Our growth in understanding by careful and thoughtful study of Scripture.

Despite what we have done (and not done), God continues to work in us through grace. God calls us to turn away from self-centered living to a life that reveals God’s love through what we believe, say, and do in the world.

Our History

In 1806, a parcel of land known as Liberty Hill was granted by William Sinclar and Benjamin Dodd to church trustees “for the purpose of a house for Divine Worship.” The Methodist Episcopal congregation built a church, naming it Liberty Church, which was to accommodate and be shared by other church congregations. The Methodists were the Methodist Episcopal from the beginning. It became Methodist Episcopal South after the church split in 1844.

            “During the war between the States, the old church helped to quarter Federal soldiers, who had a camp nearby, was depreciated to a great extent and many shade trees on the hill were cut down. At the close of the war, much repair was necessary for the continued use of the building.
            In the late eighties the Methodist folks, seeing the Baptists had built at Bealeton and the Presbyterians were looking elsewhere, and the old church was almost past using, made it known to these trustees that they would be glad to have the land. After much consideration, the lot was granted to the Methodists.
            On the land purchased from the Sinclar estate in the year 1899, a new church building was begun under the direction of Thomas H. Robinson and was dedicated in the summer of 1902 by Bishop A. Coke Smith. The year 1916 saw this building, in which had gone the labor and sacrifices of the people, burned to the ground.
            With the small amount of insurance as a start, the membership began making plans for rebuilding, this being the third structure erected here. Under the direction of Rev. G. W. Gaither this, the present church, was completed in 1919, and in the summer of that year was dedicated by the Rev. J. Forrest Prettyman.”

Miss Mabel Wills, 1920

The Methodist Episcopal Church South reunited with the Methodist Church in 1939. It became the present day Liberty United Methodist Church in 1968. From there, the church has grown in numbers and traditions with the addition of an expanded social hall in the early 2000's, new technology and renovations, still with all the beauty and glory that the Lord and His folowers intended there to be.