{"id":10,"date":"2026-04-14T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:53:24","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_3_5 et_flex_column_3_5_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Faith Global Methodist Church<\/strong> in Neenah, Wisconsin, was developed through the Wesleyan Determination to live the Word of God in daily life since 1855. Jacob Albright and Wilhelm Otterbein took the Wesleyan message to German-speaking settlers in the United States through the Evangelical and United Brethren denominations. After English became the language of the descendants of those early German settlers, the denominations merged back into the spiritual stream from which they developed. Faith United Methodist Church in Neenah has a long and spiritually abundant heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_3_5 et_flex_column_3_5_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_image_0 et_pb_image et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image003.png\" title=\"image003\" width=\"982\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image003.png 982w, https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image003-980x438.png 980w, https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image003-480x215.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 982px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-251283\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The name of the first church in our history was Salem Evangelical Church. Then in 1946, the Evangelical denomination merged with United Brethren in Christ. The name of the new denomination was Evangelical United Brethren church; at that time, the official name of our congregation became First Evangelical United Brethren Church of Neenah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, in 1968, the Evangelical United Brethren merged with the Methodist Church and became the United Methodist Church. Since there already was another Methodist Church in Neenah (First Methodist), the church became Faith United Methodist Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2023, Faith United Methodist Church became Faith Global Methodist Church and continues today.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251344,"href":"https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/251344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwdproduction.com\/faithchurch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}