E. A. Hunter was appointed pastor to the Taft, Gregory, Portland, and Ingleside circuit in 1910, and Methodists in Taft and Gregory worked together to build Methodist worship and religious education in the area. A Methodist Sunday school had been meeting in Gregory since 1876, and Hunter organized the Taft Methodist Church in December 1910. R. C. Aubrey was assigned to the circuit in 1911, when the Taft and Gregory congregations held a joint revival that brought in forty new Methodists, and the entire circuit pooled its funds to raise one thousand dollars for the new Southern Methodist University. The Methodist and Presbyterian congregations in Taft shared the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company assembly hall and later the Taft School building, then built a new facility together in 1921 on land given by the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, the first permanent church building in Taft. The two groups separated in 1923 when Methodists decided to erect their own building, and that year the Methodist and Presbyterian congregations in Gregory voted to merge with the Taft churches. In November 1924 a new Taft Methodist Church building was completed. The church continued to grow and erected new facilities as needed, formally opening a new sanctuary on Easter Sunday, 1949. Membership increased dramatically in the 1950s, and plans for a new educational plant began in 1954 and expanded in 1955. The Taft United Methodist Church congregation remained active in the community through efforts ranging from the Epworth League, organized in 1924, to a lay witness program begun in the 1980s and family programs organized in the 1990s.