The Rev. Grant. L. Hayes, the first Methodist circuit rider in this area, founded the church at Ivanhoe, Oklahoma, three miles north in 1902 and the Stillwater Church, six miles east in Texas, in 1904. After Follett originated on the Santa Fe Railroad in 1917, the two congregations merged there. The old Ivanhoe church bell, cast in Ohio in 1907, was relocated to the Follett building site in 1919, installed in the first church tower in 1924, and brought to the modern church, built in 1961, in 1976 as a link to the historic past.