It can be said that where people came to the U.P. to work, there the Methodist church was to bring the gospel!
The book starts with Methodism in the U.P. that began in the early 1830s and was primarily to the Indian Communities in Sault Ste Marie and Keweenaw Bay. It covers a brief history of the trials and hardships they had to go through in those early days. Shortly after that, with the mining and lumbering booms, the book covers the different forms of Methodism that arrived with with those industries; i.e. the different ethnic churches that sprang up. We had English speaking, Finnish speaking, Swedish speaking, Norwegian-Danish, and some German. Also a short history of different conferences like the Free Methodist, Methodist Protestant, and Methodist Episcopal which then morphed int the United Methodist, and now of course the Global Methodist has evolved.
Most of the remaining book covers all the “ghost” and current Methodist churches that ever existed in each of the 15 counties with a short history of each that could be found. Historical pictures that were available are shown along with colored photos of current active churches in the U.P. There are roughly 330 Methodist appointments or congregations that no longer exist in the U.P.
The reader will discover U.P. towns that they never knew existed!
The cost of the book is $22 and includes shipping, pick up is not available. To purchase the book mail a check payable to Northern Skies District to 927 W. Fair Ave., Marquette, MI 49855, and include the address you want it sent to.