The Cuthbert United Methodist Church
Cuthbert, Georgia 39840
About Our Church
Location: 187 Lumpkin Street
Mailing Address: PO Box 449
Phone Number: 229/732-2071 (Fax: 229/732-2704)
Email Address: CuthbertUMC@windstream.net
Chris Shoemaker, Pastor
Jimmy Brownlee, Church Administrator & Music Coordinator
Our Proud Heritage
The Cuthbert United Methodist Church is rich in history.
Shady Grove was our first church, built of logs in 1843. The late Reverend
Frank Gilmore described it as "picturesque, a place of whispering pines and
fragrant magnolias, where bay trees and honeysuckle breathed their
perfume...surely God was in this place."
A bronze marker is now placed in Greenwood Cemetery at the location of Shady Grove Methodist Church. After only seven years, the congregation outgrew its log structure. In 1851, where our church now stands, a white framed church was built in the style of the period. It was brick veneered in 1917. In 1947, the Alice B. Bussey Fellowship Hall was added and in 1956 the Fillingame Sunday School Annex was built.