Calapooia Church History

Over 100 years ago an old crippled Civil War Veteran, Sylvanus Payne White, lived on
Cole Road.  He had a stump on the hillside behind his house where he often went to pray
that God would provide a church for his family and the people of the area to worship.
 He never lived to see the answers to his prayers.

About 20 years later in the summer of 1981, the beginnings of his prayers were answered.
God created a hunger in the hearts in the people of the area for more of God's Word,
more of the Holy Spirit and a definite place to worship.

Nellie Jane Baird arranged an invitation to D. D. Dodge, the District Elder of the
Southern Oregon Conference of the Free Methodist Church, to come and hold a tent revival meeting.  This revival meeting was held near to the Old Southern Episcopal Methodist Church (now known as the Calapooia County Church) by the Calapooia creek.

The Church purchased the church building from the Southern Episcopal Church and used it until April of 1964 when our present church facility was built and dedicated on May 24, 1964.

As a church we remember our Wesleyan-holiness heritage and seek to continue praying and working together here in Douglas County.