About

“The Methodist and other citizens of Cool Spring seeing the need of a Methodist Church at Cool Spring met and formulated some plans by which the same could be built”. 

(May 5, 1909 minutes recorded by W.S. Page)  The pastor was Rev. Wagg.  A building committee was appointed.  The deed recorded in Iredell County, is dated September 7, 1909 for land costing $580.00 and was filed for registration on October 6th, 1909.

October 4, 1909 “on motion the contract was let to R.W.T. Owens to build the M.E. Church at Cool Spring for $130.00..”  Specifications of the Church:  Length 50 feet, Width 32 feet, Height 16 feet, Self-supporting roof, ½ tower 40 feet high, 1 window

in tower and 3 ventilators above roof, 8 windows in body of church and floors double.  Another bill in 1911 shows white heartpine shingles were purchased for $88.31.  On November 8, 1911 a school bell was purchased for $22.50 for the belfry.  While the church was being built, the members met at Cool Spring School Academy.

1911 is recorded as the completion of the building and the first minister in the new church was Rev. J.J. Edwards, who made the lectern used in the first church and is

now in the fellowship hall of the present church.  This one room church sanctuary served as meeting places for all Sunday school classes.  It was heated by two wood stoves and had oil lamps.  The church had permission to use the spring nearby from which Cool Spring derives its name.

In the 1940’s Sunday school rooms were added.  In 1956, a separate cement block combination education and fellowship building was built in back of the church.

In 1909 the church was known as the Cool Spring Episcopal Church, South.  In 1939 with unifications of the three streams of Methodists, it became the Cool Spring Methodist Church.  In 1968 when the Evangelical United Brethren and The Methodist Church joined together becoming the United Methodist Church, the name changed again.

The church was relocated to where the parsonage for the circuit once stood at 1902 Mocksville Highway.  The sanctuary was built in 1970 with the educational wing and

fellowship hall being added in 1975.  The last addition was in 2005 of a state-of-the art playground.

The first church and the present facilities stand as a witness of the many persons who have seen the need for a Methodist Church to provide a place to worship and glorify God.

Throughout the 100 years, the Cool Spring Church has been served by 33 pastors.