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Duane's take
The way this marker tells it, here's the story of the Dripping Springs United Methodist Church. Back in 1854, before there was a proper church building anywhere in sight, the Methodists of the Dripping Springs area gathered for worship in a one-room log home. That home belonged to a Dr.
J. W. Pound, and you have to appreciate a man willing to open up his living quarters to a congregation.
One room, the whole community, and the Word. That's a tight fit any way you look at it. Now, a congregation meeting in a log home is one thing, but a congregation worth its salt needs preachers willing to ride out and find it.
Two prominent circuit preachers took up that calling in the nineteenth century. The Rev. Andrew J.
Potter and the Rev. Orceneth A. Fisher both served Dripping Springs, traveling that circuit, bringing the ministry to people who had no grand sanctuary waiting for them.
Just faith, and whoever showed up. Then came 1880, and something changed. The congregation built its first actual sanctuary, a real church home, on land donated by Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Phillips.
Someone gave the ground, and the people raised the walls. That's a particular kind of community, right there. And here's the part that sticks with you.
This congregation, all through its history, has extended the use of that church home to newly organized churches of other denominations. When somebody else needed a place to start, Dripping Springs United Methodist said, come on in. Started in one borrowed room, and never forgot what that meant.
What the marker says
Methodists in the Dripping Springs area first gathered for worship in the one-room log home of Dr. J. W. Pound in 1854. Two prominent 19th-century circuit preachers who served Dripping Springs were the Rev. Andrew J. Potter and the Rev. Orceneth A. Fisher. In 1880, the congregation built its first sanctuary on land donated by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Phillips. In keeping with its history of community service, the congregation has often extended the use of its church home to newly organized churches of other denominations.