Founded about 1865, this was the first African-American church in Lamar and was long known as Lamar Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. It was organized by Rev. John Boston, a former slave who served as its first minister from 1865 to 1867. Boston also represented Darlington Co. in the S.C. House from 1868 to 1870 and from 1872 to 1874, and he is buried in the church cemetery. The old Boston Township was named for him. The congregation first worshiped in a brush arbor, then completed a frame sanctuary here about 1866. That church burned in 1906 and was replaced later that year by the present frame sanctuary, a Gothic Revival building. In 1916 trustees donated a half-acre for the Lamar Colored School, later Spaulding High School. Electricity replaced gas lights in 1935, and the exterior was covered in brick veneer in the 1950s.