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Evangelical Association mission, 1846; building voted November 1849; Third Street church dedicated 6 April 1856; Mishawaka Avenue basement church opened 21 September 1930, superstructure dedicated June 1943; 504 W. Mishawaka Avenue
The course: Albright's line is the Evangelical Association's. Its missionary A. B. Shafer preached through the village in 1846; the congregation voted to build in November 1849 and dedicated its frame church on Third Street on 6 April 1856. A second church, at First and Mill streets, was dedicated on 8 September 1871; a third, at Grove and Elizabeth streets, in 1904 — the old building passing to the Mishawaka Medicine Company, in one of the record's plainer church-to-commerce successions. The Grove Street church was sold to the Church of the Nazarene in 1929, and the congregation built again on Mishawaka Avenue: a basement church opened on 21 September 1930, in the Depression's depth, and the superstructure above it was completed and dedicated in June 1943 — the timeline also carries a 7 June 1942 date in the same line, and both stand. The denominational mergers renamed the congregation as the century turned: Evangelical United Brethren from the 1946 merger — First E.U.B. — and Albright United Methodist from the Methodist merger of 1968, taking the name of Jacob Albright, the Evangelical Association's founder.
The present state: Albright stands active at 504 West Mishawaka Avenue, worshipping Sundays at 10:30 a.m. in house and online, on its own site, and it hosts the M.A.C. Food Pantry — the Mishawaka-area churches' shared pantry — open Tuesdays 6 to 8 p.m. and Fridays 10 a.m. to noon for anyone in the city in need of food. The United Methodist Church's Find-A-Church directory carries its attendance at 172. Its currency in November 2026 is of the plainest dated kind: a member's funeral was held in the church on 10 November 2026, in the funeral home's published notice.
Sources:
- Ed Chamberlin, Mishawaka church-history timeline, South Bend Area Genealogical Society, 2016.
- Albright United Methodist Church's own site (albright-umc.com) and the United Methodist Find-A-Church directory, current November 2026.
- M.A.C. Food Pantry published hours; Hanley and Sons Funeral Home notice, November 2026.