Florida United Methodist Heritage Center

05/29/2026

Digitizing project for Ancestry.com is going strong! FUMC, Daytona Beach membership records on the agenda today. ❤️❤️📷📷⛪️⛪️

05/12/2026

❤️❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉✝️✝️✝️ Holy Conferencing is a few short weeks away!!! Here is a bulletin from our Florida Annual Conference of 1953!!!! How beautiful and a wonderful way to document the events. So blessed 😊

03/10/2026

Powerful hymnals. Today in the archives, looking through our collection. Signed copies of hymnals with faithful Pastor’s signatures is a blessing to see. Now in our digital, PowerPoint days, it is wonderful to pick a hymnal up and read through the songs and prayers. ❤️🙏🎵⛪️

01/27/2026

❤️🎉🙏✝️⛪️💒 Pictires from the Archives!!! Thankful for these beautiful accessions that remind us of our heritage within the United Methodist Connection. 🙏🥰 ❤️🌱

01/26/2026

Local Church History for Coronado Community, New Smyrna Beach!!! Beautiful, rich history of a faithful congregation on Florida’s east coast. ❤️🌴🌴⛪️💒✝️✝️

This is a site dedicated to the preservation of local churches of the Florida Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Located in the Heritage Center, these archival files are kept secure and in location order of living local churches. This site is dedicated to preserving and providing acce...

01/26/2026

🎉🎉🎉💻✝️🗓️ Please let us know if you or your local church would like to join in on a March 3rd Zoom Call to talk all things Ministry of Memory and ways in which your local church can actively process, protect, and preserve your rich church history files. Please email Judi at [email protected] to RSVP! Enjoy your Monday! 🥰📚🗂️❤️❤️❤️

11/17/2025

Congratulations to Pasadena Community Church for celebrating 100 years in the Florida United Methodist Conference!! This remarkable church has had strong pastors throughout its history. One notable, long serving pastor was Rev. J. Wallace Hamilton who was a prolific writer and his preaching would bring thousands of people to hear the Word each Sunday. He served Pasadena from 1929 to 1968. Thanking God for this faithful congregation! ⛪️🎉🙏❤️🌴

11/11/2025

Have you looked through our ongoing online preservation database in a while? Please take a moment to look through the history portion. We have other links as well to share. This link is constantly being added to so please check back often! This is our Florida Methodism heritage. So grateful for all who have built our Florida Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church. ❤️🙏🌴🌴💒 ❤️❤️❤️❤️

This site holds files containing histories of the Florida Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church dating back to the 1800s. From photographs, publications, and historic documents, this site hopes to embed and preserve the histories that tell the stories of Methodism in Florida that began as...

10/29/2025

🍇🍇🍷🍷⛪️⛪️ Interesting history of Welch’s Grape Juice and the ties to Methodism. Thanks to the article by Joe Iovino, a writer for the United Methodist Communications in 2016, the history goes that Dr. Thomas B. Welch was a Methodist in Vineland, NJ and also a dentist who had a strict temperance rule. To help churches not use real wine, he took Dr. Louis Pasteur’s school of thought to pasteurize grapes and it worked! First made in his kitchen in 1869, the non-alcoholic grape juice did not take off until his son urged him to try again. The product “Dr. Welch’s Unfermented Wine” took off so well that it was in the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and Welch’s Grape Juice is what we know today in 2025! Out of a passion for his church, strict temperance beliefs, and a desire to help others, Dr. Welch’s legacy remains today. And so, we know a little bit more about Welch’s Grape Juice. Please see the ad for it from a 1903 St. John’s River Conference Journal housed in the archives. 🙏🎉❤️📚

09/18/2025

🥰✝️🌴 Happy Thursday from the Archives! Grateful for the legacies that reside here in the Heritage Center. So many countless laity and clergy who have faithfully served and built up the Florida Conference. 🙏❤️⛪️