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c. 1839 – present · 610 N Michigan St
The town's oldest congregation is the Methodist one: organized about 1839, seated in the village in its own building by 1858, and worshipping today as Lakeville United Methodist Church at 610 N Michigan Street. Chapman carries the society's beginnings whole: Mr. Harrison was "the first traveling minister sent to this circuit. This was in 1839, and about the time that the society was organized"; meetings were held first in private houses; the first class-leader was George Hardy; and the founding members are named — Hubbard Henderson and wife, Milford Leonard and wife, George Hardy and wife, John D. Roberson and wife, John Price and his sister. The 1843 log church at the north site was built "under the pastorship of Rev. Lawson Munson" (the conflict over that building's date is the preceding article's). The in-village building was commenced in 1857 and finished in 1858, and Chapman names its trustees: John and James Moon, Hubbard Henderson, Martin Page and William Biglow. By 1880 the society counted "about 50 members"; Chapman refers its minister list to the Sumption's Prairie sketch in Greene Township, the two societies sharing a circuit.
The present congregation carries the line in its own words. Lakeville United Methodist Church's own site prints worship at 9:30 a.m., phone 574-784-8215, and live November 2026 programming (a youth group on 15 November, a turkey supper on 19 November, a food pantry on 24 November), and its About page claims: "Founded in 1839, Lakeville United Methodist Church has been a faithful presence in the Lakeville community for generations." The claimed founding is the organization date both county histories share, and the present name is the United Methodist name the Methodist line took at the 1968 merger; no carrier read states the 1939 or 1968 steps for this congregation by name, and the succession prints at exactly that strength. Its pastor, as the official carriers print him, is Pastor Ed McCutchan — named by the Indiana Conference in July 2025 and signing the church's own newsletter of 9 April 2026. Two things do not stand: no carrier found gives dedications, fires, or rebuilds for the 1857–58 building or any successor, and the present building's relationship to the 1857–58 building is not established; both bank as named gaps, their settlers the congregation's anniversary publications and the Indiana Conference archives. The conference's own resident bishop stands in this record only at a weak carrier's strength and is not printed as settled.