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Delmont History
Delmont United Methodist Church started in the Spring of 1924 when Mrs. Emma Prince gathered some community children on her front porch on Delmont Road and W.B.&A. Railroad for Sunday School. The Community's adults began meeting for evening prayer and fellowship in their homes. With these humble beginnings, the idea of a church on Delmont Road began to grow and flourish.
Severn Chapel Church, an old abandoned structure three miles away on Burns Crossing Road was given to the group by the (former) Methodist Protestant Conference. The group was given permission to tear down the old church and use the lumber to build Delmont MP Church. During the building process, services were held in a tent which was pitched in the church yard. Eventually, the services had to be moved to the Community Hall because the tent was torn down in a storm.
On Sunday, 13 July 1924, nine new members and two probationers were received into the congregation by the Reverend J.M. Sheridan, D.D. The cornerstone laying services were held at the church's present site, 1219 Delmont Road on Sunday, 16 November 1924 at 2:30 pm with Reverend G.I. Humphreys, D.D. presiding. The Reverend W. A. Melvin preached that evening.
Delmont Methodist Protestant Church was placed on a charge with Marley and Arundel Cove Churches with Reverend J. Tracy Fenby appointed as the church's first pastor.
The building fund for the church continued to grow, thanks to several cash donations. At the cornerstone service, the offering and pledges amounted to $1,770. The Sunday School children contributed what they could to the church on 25 April 1925 when they presented coin books totaling $34. The last note of indebtedness on the original structure was burned on 2 January 1928.
According to the Anne Arundel County Corporate Records, the church was incorporated on 25 February 1927 and renamed Delmont Methodist Church on 9 March 1943. The church is known to have had anniversary celebrations in 1954, 1984, 1994 and in 1999. In 1954, the church dedicated a new kitchen facility and bell tower. In 1984, a groundbreaking was held for a proposed addition. The anniversary celebration in 1994 commemorated seventy years of service to the Lord Jesus Christ, and the celebration in 1999 marked Delmont's seventy fifth year of service to our Lord and to the Delmont Community.
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