Pilmoor United Methodist Church Traditional Cache
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Pilmoor United Methodist Church
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A quick cache located near Pilmoor United Methodist Church. An excerpt from the Church's webpage details it's history.
Where Carolina Methodism was born.
Methodists first arrived on the North American continent in the middle third of the eighteenth century as members of Methodist Societies in England began immigrating to the new world. Though some were able to gather themselves into small class meetings and Methodist Societies, they had all but lost their connection to Methodist founder John Wesley and to their brothers and sisters back in England. In 1768, Thomas Taylor wrote a famous letter to Mr. Wesley asking that he send preachers to the Methodists in North America. In response, Wesley asked for volunteers. Two young men stepped forward. They were named Joseph Pilmoor and Richard Boardman.
The First Sermon in Carolina.
Pilmoor and Boardman arrived in the colonies in late 1768 and immediately set to work. Pilmoor made Philadelphia his home base, but made several trips outside the area to preach and form Methodist Societies. In 1772, he traveled South to Norfolk, Virginia, stopping to preach at Great Bridge and continuing south into Currituck, North Carolina. In September of 1772, Pilmoor spent the night near what is now Moyock, then, in the morning, made his way to the Currituck Courthouse where he preached the first Methodist Sermon in North Carolina.
An Abiding Memorial.
154 years later, on the last Sunday of September 1928, the cornerstone was laid on the first brick church in Currituck County. The new church was located near the old Courthouse and was to be a memorial to Joseph Pilmoor and that first sermon. This would be a new church building and a new name, but not a new congregation. The existing Methodist congregation at Baxter's Grove (four miles north of Curriuck Courthouse off of what is now Tulls Creek Road) would relocate into the new building as soon as it was ready
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