In 1910, the Poteet Townsite Company, owned by Methodists Henry T. and Ida Fischer Mumme, donated land at Fourth Street and Avenue G for a church building and at Fourth Street and Avenue D for a parsonage. Under the leadership of the Reverend F.A. Grimes, Methodists had been meeting informally in houses and in the town's only school building before officially becoming a spiritual family on February 3, 1912. Grimes lived in a tent next to the church property until the parsonage was completed, and salvaged lumber from the Amphion Methodist Church in Amphion, the first county seat, was used to build the parsonage in Poteet. The congregation hired member A.J. Brown to construct the large white-frame church, the first Protestant sanctuary in Poteet, and dedicated it on June 16, 1912. Methodists shared the sanctuary with Baptists until the Baptist church was completed later that year. A new church building was erected in the 1930s, an educational building was added in 1948, and a memorial hall and new parking lot were completed in 1985 and 1997. Over its long history, the church fostered belonging and service in the community: in the 1940s the Women's Society of Christian Service and the Women's Missionary Society thrived, in the 1950s and 1960s the Methodist Youth Fellowship actively raised money for a roof and sidewalk between the two church buildings, and in the 1980s and 1990s the United Methodist Men's Organization funded scholarships for graduating seniors who were church members. The congregation also provided food pantries and medical and human services, and for more than a century it has remained a steadfast place of worship and service for the Poteet community.