The first Eden schoolhouse was erected in 1885, and itinerant preachers who stopped to give sermons there attracted people of all faiths. A community Sunday school met in the building for several years. The first Methodist Sunday school was formed in 1901 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Williams in the Maverick community northeast of Eden, and the Eden Methodist Church was said to have been organized about 1904. A Community Ladies’ Aid Society made up of members of all faiths helped raise funds for a Baptist church building erected in 1905, and Methodists met there until they could build their own house of worship. The Methodist congregation purchased a house for use as a parsonage in 1907, housing circuit-riding preachers until the Rev. G.E. Glasspool became the church’s first full-time pastor the following year. The church erected its own building in 1909, and as the congregation grew, alterations and additions were made. In 1923 the Lutheran church held services in the Methodist building, continuing Eden’s early ecumenical spirit of cooperation. Mrs. Hixie Crump Potter, a charter member, turned the first spade of soil at the groundbreaking of a new church building in March 1948, and the first service in the new sanctuary was held on Easter Sunday, 1949. Church membership grew, the congregation thrived, and at the dawn of the 21st century it continued in the traditions of its founders with programs of worship and service.