First United Methodist Church
Our Pastors, Past and Present
The name of Rev. James Laughbridge, first pastor and builder of the church, does not appear in the register of pastors below. Other pioneer pastors names are missing also, including Rev. Thomas Lowery and Rev. Amos Kendall. These do not appear probably because the area was not part of an organized annual conference at the time or because the records are not available. Our register of pastors begins in 1881.
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Name of Pastor | Appointment | ||
| H. E. Smith | November 1881 | ||
| T. J. Harris | November 1882 | ||
| Eugene Johnson | November 1883 | ||
| J. R. Roberson | December 1887 | ||
| Help R. Tucker | December 1889 | ||
| J. C. Park | December 1893 | ||
| J. W. Anderson | December 1894 | ||
| J. W. Bell | December 1897 | ||
| H. C. Morehead | December 1900 | ||
| W. D. Lester | December 1901 | ||
| W. L. Graves | December 1904 | ||
| L. W. Caine | December 1908 | ||
| R. P. Neblett | December 1910 | ||
| N. C. Augustus | December 1914 | ||
| J. W. Raper | December 1915 | ||
| E. M. Shaw | December 1917 | ||
| E. E. McKeithen | December 1921 | ||
| W. N. Dodds | December 1924 | ||
| A. Sandifer Raper | December 1928 | ||
| G. H. Boyles | December 1931 | ||
| W. J. Dawson | December 1936 | ||
| G. R. Williams | December 1940 | ||
| W. C. McCay | December 1943 | ||
| A. C. Bishop | May 1950 | ||
| L. P. Jumper | May 1953 | ||
| Walter D. Smith | May 1957 | ||
| Paul E. Russell | May 1961 | ||
| John Bowie | May 1965 | ||
| H. L. Hathorn | May 1969 | ||
| Grady Bailey, Jr. | May 1979 | ||
| Harold Robinson | May 1985 | ||
| Bryan Scarbrough | May 1988 | ||
| Roger McGrew | May 1993 | ||
| Mike Childs | May 1997 | ||
| Walter Goldsmith | June 2005 | ||
| Phillip S. Dearman | June 2008 | ||
| Larry Patrick | June 2011 |
