A Methodist Episcopal class that later became a church society was organized in Commerce in 1838 and for many years was part of the Farmington Circuit, with the Reverend Daniel C. Jacokes as its first circuit minister. Religious meetings were held in a schoolhouse until the society erected its first church in 1842. In 1854 Commerce, with seventy-one members, became the head of a circuit. The congregation organized a Sunday School in 1855, an Epworth League for youth in 1891, and a Ladies Aid Society in 1885 that hosted maple sugar and lawn socials to supplement dues of five cents a month. By 1915 the local Presbyterian and Baptist congregations had disbanded, leaving the Methodist society as the sole church in Commerce. In 1842 the Methodist Episcopal congregation erected a modest Greek Revival frame church at the northwest intersection of Commercial and Ponderosa streets. Logs for the church, including oak for the frame, were hauled to Lapeer to be sawed. The land had been purchased a year earlier for $75, and the church cost $1,200. The structure was moved to its present location in 1957 and enlarged. Its original portion, now used as a chapel, is distinguished by a towering steeple that is a replica of the original, and the building is recognized as the oldest Methodist church building in Oakland County and one of the oldest in Michigan.