Methodist Epis
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Oak Park Methodist Episcopal ChurchThe Oak Park Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1909, the first services being held in a tent erected for the purpose at the corner of Newall and North Saginaw streets. Within six months the site was purchased and the chapel adjoining the present edifice was built under the direction of the Rev. Frank Field, the first pastor. Two years later the basement of the church was built and the services, with the Rev. Frank Miner as pastor, were held here until 1915, when the church edifice was erected, the entire cost being seventy thousand dollars. The new church which was dedicated in 1916, is one of the handsome churches of Flint, with a most approved system of lighting, and has also installed an acousticon, or telephone system, for the aid of the deaf. Under the pastorate of the Rev. Horace Mallinson, who has been in charge for the past three years, the membership has reached the six hundred mark, and the Sunday school rolls include four hundred names. This article was transcribed by Geraldine Waite from a work by Edwin O. Wood, LL.D., President Michigan Historical Commission, History of Genesee County Michigan Volume I, Her People, Industries and Institutions (Federal Publishing Company: Indianapolis, Indiana, 1916), Pages 729ff |
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