This is G o o g l e's <A HREF="http://www.google.com/intl/en_extra/help/features.html#cached">cache</A> of <A HREF="http://www.gbgm-umc.org/trinityGA01/history.htm">http://www.gbgm-umc.org/trinityGA01/history.htm </A>. G o o g l e's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web. The page may have changed since that time. Click here for the <A HREF="http://www.gbgm-umc.org/trinityGA01/history.htm">current page</A> without highlighting. Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content. These search terms have been highlighted:  evans  chapel  atlanta  A Short History of Trinity United Methodist Church > At its founding in 1853 Trinity was part of The Methodist Episcopal Church, > South. In 1939 The Methodist Episcopal Church, The Methodist Episcopal > Church, South, and The Methodist Protestant Church united to form The > Methodist Church. In 1968, The Methodist Church and The Evangelical United > > Through the efforts of Wesley Chapel, now First United Methodist Church (360 > Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta), Trinity Methodist Church began in the home of > Martha and Greene B. Haygood, on McDonough Street, now Capitol Avenue. A > year later, in 1854, the church moved into a new building--the first brick > church in Atlanta--built on Mitchell Street on the site where the > Department of Transportation stands today, immediately south of the present > Georgia State Capitol. Wesley Chapel and Trinity shared pastors until 1856. > Methodism was less than 100 years old, and Atlanta's population was about > > During the Civil War, in July 1864, as Union General William Tecumseh > Sherman's army approached the city, Trinity Methodist Church was closed and > the Reverend Atticus G. Haygood and his family fled the city. Son of Martha > and Greene Haygood, and later a Methodist bishop and president of Emory > University (1875-84), Atticus Haygood was a missionary in Confederate > General Joseph E. Johnston's army. During August 1864, he held services > twice each Sunday. As the city was evacuated in September, furniture from > refugees' homes was stored in the church. Through the intervention of > Father Thomas O'Reilly, pastor of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church (48 > Martin Luther King Drive SW, Atlanta), General Sherman spared four > > In 1874, the church moved to a larger, more impressive building on the > corner of Whitehall and Peters Streets (which is now Trinity Avenue). The > church remained at that site until 1911, when they built the present > structure on the southwest corner of Washington Street and Trinity Avenue. > The only ornamentation on this Gothic structure, designed by Walter T. > Downing, a prominent architect of the day, is a lofty tower projecting from > the northwest corner of the building. The "triumph of the whole > construction," according to The Atlanta Journal (October 27, 1912), are its > stained glass windows, made of opaque glass. The north windows depict > themes from the Old Testament; the south windows show themes from the New > Testament. The center windows on the east side of the church contain > symbols of the Christian Trinity; windows on either side show figures > representing the formation of the church (the Apostle Paul and St. John > Chrysostom on the left, Martin Luther and John Wesley on the right). The > elaborately carved chancel and pews, which originally came from Germany, > came from the Whitehall Street building. The <A HREF="http://www.google.com/music_austinorgan.html">organ</A>, built by the <A HREF="http://www.austinorg.com/">Austin > Organ Company</A> in 1912, originally had four divisions: swell, orchestral, > great, and echo. The last division was not included in the 1995 renovation > by <A HREF="http://www.pipe-organ.com/">A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Sales and Service</A> of Lithonia, GA. Five of > its thirty-nine ranks of pipes came from the old Whitehall Street church. > Its construction uses the universal wind-chest method and is > electro-pneumatic. The current three-manual console in the sanctuary, which > dates from 1916, was rebuilt in 1995 to accommodate a solid-state memory > system; a second, two-manual console is located in the assembly hall behind > > Trinity is credited with planting the seeds for five Methodist churches in > the Atlanta area: in 1871 St. Paul (originally on Fair St.) and Evans Chapel > on Stonewall St. (which became Walker Street Church), in 1878 Asbury on > Davis St., in 1879-81 Pierce Chapel (which became St. John's at Georgia > Ave. and Pryor St.), and in 1882-85 Park Street in West End. In the 1880s > and 1890s, Trinity sent at least five missionaries overseas and was active > in Home Missions. The Methodist "Epworth League," predecessor of the > "Wesley Fellowship," had its start in 1889 in Trinity's "Young People's > Christian League." During World War I, Trinity supported two Red Cross > units. On the Trinity church's 75th anniversary in 1929, The Atlanta > > . . . with the rising fortunes of the new Atlanta came an even profounder > test. Prosperity flowed, and pride set high in the hearts of men [and > women]. But Trinity held true to its olden ideal. "Whosoever will be chief > > During the 1930s, Trinity operated a soup kitchen, staffed chiefly by the > women of the church, serving the city at a time when people stood in long > > In the 1950s, the building of freeways displaced residential housing on > Capitol Avenue, Washington Street, and surrounding neighborhoods. > Responding to changes in its environs, which now consists of government > offices and public housing, Trinity sought to minister to the growing > homeless population in Atlanta. In the 1960s, this ministry focused on the > needs of the Capitol Homes community and others in the downtown area. > During the 1970s, 1980s, and on into the 1990s, Trinity continued programs > designed to meet the needs of the inner-city: > a soup kitchen serving 800 homeless people Sunday afternoons, > > a night shelter housing 30 men developed into a program helping men break > the cycles of substance abuse, unemployment, homelessness, and poverty, > > a transitional house for homeless men, and > > a Wednesday noon worship service and lunch for downtown workers, shoppers, > > In the 1990s, Trinity expanded its ministries to respond to the needs of > > Trinity United Methodist Church, a congregation of 250 members, strives to > be open to diverse expressions of Christian faith, to welcome persons from > all religious, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, social and economic > stations, and sexual orientations into the life of the congregation, and to >   <A HREF="http://www.google.com/index.htm">Home</A> | <A HREF="http://www.google.com/location_times.htm">Worship Times and Location</A> | <A HREF="http://www.google.com/who_we_are.html">Who We Are</A> | <A HREF="http://www.google.com/calendar.htm">Calendar</A> | <A HREF="http://www.google.com/education.htm">Education</A>  <A HREF="http://www.google.com/music.html">Music</A> | <A HREF="http://www.google.com/outreach.html">Outreach</A> | <A HREF="http://www.google.com/links.html">Links</A> | <A HREF="http://www.google.com/sitemap.htm">Site Map</A> | <A HREF="http://www.google.com/contact.htm">Contact Us</A>  Ann in Atlanta