Birmingham Churches and their Cornerstones 93

Fulton Springs Methodist Church is a congregation of the Global Methodist Church (GMC), a new denomination which will have its convening general conference in September 2024. Like most, if not all, Global Methodist churches, Fulton Springs was part of the United Methodist Church prior to 2022. Within these series on churches in near Birmingham, Alabama, this is the 12th in a fortnight of posts of 14 Methodist churches. I have been including Methodist churches of various denominations (UMC, AME, AMEZ, CME, independent) so I knew I needed a GMC church. I’ve taken all of the photographs in this series while on bike rides, and yesterday monring Fulton Springs looked like the closest one with a cornerstone that I could pedal to safely. (That is, no busy two-lane roads.) It was a pleasant pedal yesterday up to Fultondale.

Fulton Springs Methodist Church is located just off of US-31 on the old road, known as Stouts Road. It is up the southern slope of the valley from Black Creek. Fulton Springs Baptist Church is a more modest building futher to the south on the valley floor. The Five Mile Creek Greenway is a crushed-stone-surfaced railtrail that parallels Black Creek and is well worth a visit.

The cornerstone of the Methodist church’s older building was carefully preserved when it was faced with brick. It states that the stone was laid on September 1, 1925 when the congregation was known as Fulton Springs Methodist Episcopal Church South.

Since the GMC was launched, I have not been by many of its churches. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that Fulton Springs is the first I’ve seen that incorporates the denominations three-circles-and-cross logo in its exterior signage. It is visible above the church’s name in the photo below.

Read this first post for more on this series on Birmingham churches and their cornerstones.

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The color and shape of the location markers indicate the character of the cornerstones at each site. Stones like this, with only the church name and date, are light blue. Ones with multiple names are red. If there is more than one stone at the site a shape is used. Click here for full information on the icons.