Pickett Chapel in Lebanon, Tennessee, has been a white church, a Black church and a multiracial one in its long life as a Methodist house of worship. Built by slave labor, its newest incarnation will be as a museum and event venue if restoration efforts by a local Black history committee are successful.
United Methodists in Holston Conference moved beyond prayers and got to work after learning about devastating floods and storms recently experienced by neighbors in Eastern Kentucky and Southwest Virginia.
United Methodists in Knoxville, Tennessee where a fatal school shooting happened April 12 are trying to help a school that was already reeling from shooting deaths of four students since January.
