On November 22, 1964 the first service of Johns Island Southern Methodist was held at the Johns Island Community Center with Rev. Joseph Flood presiding.  Twenty attended the first service.  On

February 14, 1965, the congregation moved to the Island Grocery on River Road.  The present sanctuary was competed in 1970.  We held our first service in the new building on March or May 8, 1970.  The Harry F. Baldwin Fellowship hall was added in October 1984.

The charter members of Johns Island Southern Methodist formed this congregation so that  they could worship God, enjoy Christian fellowship, teach their children, and preach the Gospel.  Many left other denominations because the leaders of those organizations were abandoning the faith once delivered to the saints by advocating a socialist agenda.  One charter-member helped found our church because the denominational leaders of his former church were too deeply involved in politics. Years later another left a church after her pastor forbid her from teaching the virgin birth of Jesus.   She came to Johns Island Southern Methodist where one was free to teach the Bible.

When the new congregation came together, they wanted to affirm the ancient teachings of the inerrant word of God.  Thus, they firmly held the Bible as the canonical revelation of God.  We accept that God chose specific prophets and Apostles to record His revelation for the Church.  This divinely given revelation is true in all that it teaches and is without error in every claim, including those of history and science.

As a Methodist congregation, they affirmed the beliefs of the early church.  They did not seek to formulate or create new teachings.  We seek to uphold the “old time religion”.  They understood that true religion is not something formulated by men in their search for meaning.  True religion is revealed religion where God Himself shows humanity how to find and have communion with the Godhead.

 The congregation recognized that the Christian Church is primarily a spiritual institution comprised of faithful people seeking God.  A congregation is called to help and to encourage each member in the spiritual growth.  Every congregation needs to provide a place where people can come to seek the truth and  the Spirit of God.  We seek to provide attendees various means by which to find the grace of God.

The world is a place where people live in deception and corruption and where Christians are called to serve God.  We serve God in whatever vocation or context that He has placed us.  We seek to make the world a better place for all.  Yet, we, as a congregation  dedicated to God, cannot become yoked to any political or social movement because we recognize that they are all tainted by the corruption and moral pollution of this world.  If we become entangled with the movements of this world, we will become defiled by their corruption.  Therefore, we seek to make this world a better place without submitting spiritual power to worldly powers.