Cochranville United Methodist Church

HISTORY

After struggling through the difficult times of the 1920’s and 1930’s and W.War II, the church entered a new period of growth. Rising worCochranville UMC had its beginning in a Camp Meeting held near Steelville, probably in the year 1830. A congregation formed that met initially in a “red framed building”, that was part of a textile mill in the nearby village of Glenville.
In 1843 the congregation moved temporarily to a house on present day Route 10 in Cochranville until the completed construction in the following year of a small brick church on present day Cochran Street at the northern edge of the village.
For nearly sixty years this little church would be home to a slowly growing congregation., served at first by circuit-riding preachers.
1903, the congregation had outgrown its house of worship and decided to build on the present site, where the original part of the building was completed and dedicated in 1904. Hard pressed for money, the congregation had to demolish the old church and use the bricks in the construction of their new house of worship.ship service attendance and burgeoning Sunday School and VBS classed led to construction of the Sunday School wing in 1957-58.