The United Methodist Church of Coolidge began as a pioneer church organized in the Armour community, about two miles west, on April 10, 1873, when the area was still thinly settled. Its charter members were John and Caroline Askew, A. J. Moore, Leona Waddell, and George Walker. The original one-room frame church building, with a spire and belfry, was erected in 1874. After the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railroad bypassed Armour, the congregation moved its building to Coolidge in 1904. Under the leadership of the Rev. J. B. Curry and Hull Askew, a son of charter members, the present edifice was built in 1922.