Polytechnic United Methodist Church

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Polytechnic United Methodist Church

The congregation and campus have shared ministry for nearly 120 years. We are also an inclusive congregation: all are welcome!

Formerly Polytechnic UMC, this page preserves and shares the history, stories, and legacy of the congregation, now part of Meadowbrook-Poly United Methodist Church. Our church attempts to meet the needs of all who come our way, persons in need, students, immigrants, and our members. We believe “all” means all—no matter of race, age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc.—all are welcome at Po

lytechnic United Methodist Church! We do not claim to have everything figured out, but we agree to be in community and continue to seek understanding for our faith. Come and be a part of the journey of faith, service, and love!

04/05/2026

Easter morning.

He is risen.

Light fills the window again, the cross is no longer in shadow, and what once felt like an ending is revealed as life.

The church goes on.
The story goes on.

Alleluia. 💙

04/04/2026

Holy Saturday.

The quiet day.

The day the world holds its breath.

The tower still stands at Polytechnic United Methodist Church, rising over Polytechnic Heights, completed in 1952, steady and familiar.

From the outside, it can look like something ended there.

But it didn’t.

The congregation did not close. It carried on—merging, gathering in a new place, continuing as a people of the United Methodist tradition.

The building continues too, now in the life of Texas Wesleyan University, still teaching, still shaping lives, still part of the neighborhood.

Different place.
Same faith.

And even now, the voices remain—those who remember, those who carry it with them, those who still feel what that place meant.

Spread out.
But not gone.

Holy Saturday reminds us:

What looks still is not finished.
What feels silent is not over.

The church goes on.
The story goes on.

And resurrection is already on its way.

💙

04/03/2026

This cross stood in the shadowed stillness of Polytechnic United Methodist Church, the sanctuary draped in black, the rose window darkened, the light intentionally dimmed. Good Friday was never meant to be comfortable. It was meant to be felt.

That space has changed now. The congregation has merged, the building no longer holds its people the way it once did. But this moment—this image—remains.

Good Friday is a remembering.

A remembering that love does not always look like triumph.
A remembering that faith sometimes walks through silence.
A remembering that even in darkness, we stay.

The cross, stripped of decoration, stands as it always has—not as an ending, but as a witness. To suffering. To sacrifice. To a love that did not turn away.

We sit in that quiet.

And we remember.

Address

1310 S Collard Street
Fort Worth, TX
76105

Telephone

+18175340278

Website

http://polytechumc.com/

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