Circuit-riding Methodist ministers known as “the Lord’s Horsemen” arrived in Montana in the 1870s to establish congregations among the territory’s early population. After reservation lands in the Flathead opened to homesteading in 1910, settlers came to the area, and Reverend Welch, an itinerant minister, held services in Ronan twice a month. In December 1910, the Methodist congregation in Ronan purchased land and began building a Gothic style church, with services held five months later. The First Ladies Aid raised money for furnishings through fundraisers such as a colonial dinner, a Japanese tea, and a play at the opera house, and when ideas ran short, the women challenged each other to earn a dollar and report how it was done. Their efforts carpeted the aisle, bought lights, and paid the minister’s salary. Stained glass windows installed in 1911 and the original ornately carved organ remain part of that legacy. Construction of an annex enlarged the church in 1918 under Pastor W. I. Greer, and during Reverend Joe “Little Joe” Ashworth’s tenure from 1929 to 1940, a sidewalk, lawn, and bell tower were added. The church, the oldest continuously used Methodist church in Lake, symbolizes the faithfulness of early Methodism in the Mission Valley.