Mountain Home United Methodist Church

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Mountain Home United Methodist Church

Small Methodist church welcomes families, singles, old and young to come worship in a relaxed, pastoral setting on top of Chehalem Mountain.

Mountain Home UMC is a small, vibrant community of believers that are involved in outreach in our local area as well as in mission globally. We seek to be in service together to this world God so dearly loves. You are welcome regardless of whether you have been a faithful Christian for years or if you have never stepped inside a church.

08/14/2026

John Nilson

Join us for a church service, concert, and barbecue afterwards!

04/04/2026

Sunrise Easter morning service at 7:00AM.
It will be outdoors followed by an indoor breakfast.

03/28/2026

Palm Sunday service at 11:00.

10/21/2025

Holiday Bazaar on November 15th and 22nd. Doors open at 10 AM and close at 2 PM. Come see wonderful home made gifts and goodies.

08/03/2025

Once again John Nilsen will be part of our service Sunday, August 10th. John will offer a concert afterwards. Please join us for the Concert and barbecue following. Barrels for collecting food for Willowbrook Food Pantry will be on site. Hope to see you at 11 AM.

07/19/2025

The Methodist church is about service. July 20th service will be a prayer breakfast at 9 AM followed by several hours of church grounds maintenance. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Come and bring your tools to beautify our grounds.

07/18/2025

Last month Charmel Ulrich's Sherwood classmates restored her memorial fireplace at Mountain Home church. Charmel was a beloved child of Mountain Home in the 1970s and was a lively and vibrant member of its very active youth group, which was led by Jeannine Schmeltzer and Winnie Aebischer. On August 10, 1980, weeks before starting her freshman year at Sherwood High School, she was kidnapped while walking with a friend on Lebeau Road. The rest of the story can be found via Google.

While Charmel was missing, her youth group friends organized and worked newspaper drives (remember those?!) to raise money for the reward fund for her safe return.

After her body was found, her profoundly heartbroken youth group friends used that money to commission a stained glass window in the church and also this memorial -- a new fireplace to replace the crumbling one standing there at that time, which she had talked about needing to be fixed. ...Then the local brickmason who built the fireplace refused to take payment for it, donating the materials and labor in his grief.

So the youth group used that money to purchase a new organ and baptismal font for the church.

Less than four years later a church fire destroyed all the memorials except this fireplace.

Local church families commissioned a replacement stained glass window during the 1985-86 reconstruction of the church, and it's in the east wall of the sanctuary to this day.

Charmel's fireplace is used by the church on Easter and other special occasions, and the summer services are held in front of it ... yet this memorial had endured since the 1980s with minimal upkeep.

So Charmel's classmates spent a morning cleaning the memorial during their 2024 class reunion weekend. That's when they realized the fireplace needed major restoration. They raised funds among themselves, found a local brick mason, and in June 2025 they started restoring the memorial.

Phase One of the restoration included a thorough, aggressive cleaning, and the repair of numerous failing mortar joints. Phase Two is coming: a stainless steel spark arrester hood above the flue, and potentially some other work.

— narrative by Gerry Elligsen and Cathy Poff
— memorial restoration organized by Ryan Miller, Robb Streit and Cathy Poff
— memorial restoration funded by Charmel’s Sherwood Class of 1984
-- restoration brickmason Marc Hayden https://www.marcsmasonry.com/

Music: "I Remember Well" by Cody Francis

04/20/2025

Jesus is risen indeed!

Address

23905 SW Wunderli Canyon Road
Sherwood, OR
97140

Opening Hours

9am - 12pm

Website

https://www.mthomeumc.org/

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