Sunday Worship 9:30 AM
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Phone 995-4306
 The history of Buxton United Methodist Church closely parallels the growth of Methodism in our country following the American Revolution in 1776. It began as a lay movement with village lay pastors and lay leaders under the direction of a circuit rider who knitted and connected the Cape, as Buxton was known prior to 1870, in an effective, involved ministry from Currituck to Portsmouth. The American Methodist Society, with its fire and brimstone gospel sermons, rivivals, and camp meetings, brought sinners to a spiritual experience of converson at various homes and meeting places at the Cape during the Great Awakening of the nineteenth century. This was the forerunner of our church today. In 1881, the first of three churches to occupy the same general location was built, the Diamond Point Methodist Church South. It was a one-room building with a steep roof, small shuttered windows, a narrow doorway, front bell steeple and twin rows of pine benches worn smooth. This land was donated by Nasa S. Williams in 1880. Preachers included Rev. Amasa Stanly Simpson of the Cape, Rev. George Leffers Fulcher of Trent and Rev. Joshua Halstead Dailey of Hatteras. The second church, Buxton Methodist Church South, a large two-story, white frame building with a tall steeple and a bell, was completed in 1908. A Sunday School annex on the sourtheast corner was built in 1933. Our present church, with its beautiful cathedral ceiling and stained glass windows fore and aft in the sanctury, stands today as living testimony to the faithful witness of saints dear to our memory. It was begun in March 1960 and completed in time to hold the first service on Easter Sunday in 1961. Long time member Cynthia Rollinson (1887-1978) remarked with pride that her life of faith in Christ spanned each of three churches. Today, Buxton United Methodist Church is still an involved church that loves its neighbor as itself in our fast-growing community, poised to meet the spiritual needs of our village in the new millennium, by the grace of God. We provide a preschool, Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, Children's Christmas Pageant, Food Pantry, and support AA, Alanon, and NA meetings. We adopt the senior class throughout the school year, and we have active youth, women's and men's groups. Our inspired choir, under the direction of JoAnne Pullen, is active in Christmas and Easter cantatas and participates in unity singings, revivals, and events rought the island. Our current membership has grown to 265 members with an ever-increasing number of non-members, including Coast Guard families and seasonal residents taking an active role in our church. We are thrilled to host visitors and vacationers every Sunday and invite new residents to worship with us in giving all honor, praise and glory to the Father. He has blessed his children for generations past, present and future at Buxton United Methodist Church. |