The First United Methodist Church of Winter Garden began in 1893 in Beulah, a community two miles south of Winter Garden, and was founded on March 24, 1895 as the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Its original congregation met in a room of the Beulah public schoolhouse, with services held once a month by a circuit preacher from Apopka. By 1910, as Winter Garden grew significantly, the congregation relocated there and met under an arbor before a wooden frame church building was constructed on this site that same year. During the 1920s, the church began offering regular services, and in 1942 it dedicated a brick sanctuary featuring art glass windows and an Aeolian organ with 1,770 pipes. A library was added in 1949, and the School Building, Fellowship Hall, and Chapel were dedicated in the 1950s. In 1968, the Methodist denomination merged with the Evangelical United Brethren, establishing the first United Methodist Church, and the First United Methodist Church of Winter Garden was incorporated on January 9, 1989. Since its founding, it has served its community through multiple educational and outreach programs.