Our mailing address is:
P O Box 224
Roaring Gap, NC 28668
Services are held at 9:00 am each Sunday. If you have prayer requests or other needs, please contact Dr. Brinegar at at 336-366-7750. Mailing address for Antioch MC is
PO Box 224, Roaring Gap NC 28668
In the summer of 1850 the people of the community built, on land donated by Thomas Smith, a log church to be called Antioch Methodist Chu
rch and Camp Meeting Ground. This original log church stood directly in front of the present day Antioch Methodist Church. Foreseeing that a log church would be too small for the camp meeting congregations, a large arbor was built directly across the little stream that flows by the church. Since camp meetings were always held in late summer during the hottest part of the year, the arbor, filled with crude split-log benches, made a comfortable place to listen to the long sermons that were preached three and sometimes four times a day. Among the first preachers to serve Antioch Church were the noted Rev. Morgan Bryant and Rev. Thomas Smith who had received his “License to Exhort” from the Holston Conference in 1849. Antioch Church seems to have remained a flourishing church until about 1880 when, for some reason, it fell into a period of inactivity. The Methodist Conference was about to close the church and sell the property. John Simmons, whose home was near the church, gathered his neighbors together and told them he did not intend to raise his children in a community that did not have a church. They began to make plans to build a new church, and, with the help of his brother, Thomas Simmons, and the other men of the community, trees were felled and sawed into boards and in 1895 the little frame church was finished. Article provided by Alleghany Historical-Genealogical Society, Inc. Photo above taken by Jeff Halsey of Imaging Specialists, Sparta, NC. Photo below provided by Pauline Jolly & published in History of Alleghany book.
