Green Street United Methodist Church
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A month later, a group of converts organized themselves as Salem Methodist
Episcopal Church and built a wood frame church in the West Salem neighborhood.
Some 20 years later, a brick sanctuary was built at the present location,
and the congregation was renamed Green Street Methodist. In the 1960s, the
congregation began a long steady loss of members. The West Salem neighborhood
became racially diverse and many charter residents moved away from the city.
At one point in the late 1990s, Sunday morning attendance dipped to 15 people.
A group of people, who called themselves "the remnant," remained and re-visioned
the church, opening the doors wide to embrace the community around them.
Today, Green Street Church is alive and thriving, with 250+ members and
approximately 160 people in worship each Sunday! The congregation reflects
the make-up of the West Salem community-- white, African-American, and Hispanic;
the affluent, the middle class, and the poor--and also includes many from
other neighborhoods who seek a diverse congregation. Celebrating diversity,
Green Street Church strives to deepen the spiritual journey, to be engaged
with the poor and suffering, and to work for justice in the world. We invite
you to find out what the buzz is all about. Come visit us at Green Street,
where we celebrate the diversity of the human family, and where the Kingdom
of God is breaking through