The Summerfield Methodist congregation was organized as early as 1837, first under the charge of Charles McLeod and next Asbury H. Shanks. A contract for the present building was let on October 23, 1844, and the building was dedicated on October 5, 1845. Greenberry Garrett was Presiding Elder for the Summerfield District, and the original building committee consisted of Greenberry Garrett, A. H. Mitchell, T. B. Goldsby, John Paulling, and George A. B. Walker. The original trustees were George Childers, Noel Pitts, John Paulling, and David Mims. Bishop J. O. Andrew and many other prominent Methodist leaders and educators worshipped here. This church absorbed the earlier congregation that worshipped at Childers Chapel, south of this site, where a Methodist congregation existed as early as 1824.