Modest frame building was constructed on the newly purchased ground. The next year, during the pastorate of the Rev.
Purchased the east half of the lot on which the Grace Church Worship Center now In 1851, the congregation sold the little log church building for $75 and Whether this group was acquainted with theįoster colony is not known.) A New Building and New Music (1851-early 1870's) This church was led by Barnhart Learner, father of J. (Also in 1845, the Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church was organized. Superintendent, and the average attendance was 15. They used this church for nearly sevenįirst Sunday School in the county. They built their own log church on what is now part of Foster Park, at theĬorner of Washington and Superior Streets. Soon they outgrew the Foster home andīegan meeting on the second floor of the settlement's log courthouse. The new church met in the Foster cabin, located a short distance north of In 1844, their pastor was assigned to theĬhurch in Rockville (Indiana). Colclazer helped them organizeĪ church, the first religious congregation in the area. Jacob Colclazer.Ī pioneer Methodist minister, to visit the settlement.
It is thought that it wasĮlizabeth Foster who invited the Rev. They metįor prayer and worship in one another's log houses. Indian Chief Ma-Ko-Ko-Ma, with whom he was onĮlizabeth Foster and her neighbors were followers of John Wesley. The one who proposed that the town be named "Kokomo" after the Miami He donated the land for the village and built its first log courthouse. David Foster is often considered the founder of Kokomo. As a young child, sheĬame west with her parents and settled in Mooresville, Indiana. A few other settlers joined him and a small villageĮlizabeth M. Business with the Miami Indians was good and Foster made a Davidįoster set up a trading post on the north side of Wildcat Creek west of theĬurrent Main Street. The Fosters came from Burlington, Indiana, to what is now Kokomo in 1842. Grace United Methodist Church can trace its roots back to the veryīeginnings of the town of Kokomo and its founders, David and Elizabeth Foster.
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“Grace wants to lead us to more opportunity, more equality, more flourishing, more patience, more justice, more covenant-keeping, more hope, more and deeper followers of Jesus and said differently, less unfairness, less judgmentalism, less prejudice, less violence, less despair, less hunger, less racism, less sexual harassment, less mimicking of unhealthy patterns of behavior that we see in the world.Click for PDF file (or right-click to download) A History of Grace Church The Founding (1842 - 1852) Recently, our Bishop Ken Carter put it this way.
Like the potter’s hand on a lump of clay, grace wants to lead to something. While not pontificating or shaming, grace is demanding. The reason for that is we begin attending to where God is present in our “problems,” and trusting that God has something to say if we will listen.Įncountering and awakening to God’s gift of grace comes with an invitation to follow and be formed by grace.
Grace doesn’t fix all our problems, but it turns them all into opportunities for beauty to erupt. Awakening to this gift of God and receiving it in all its mystery gives us peace with God and moves us toward peace with one another.