The Patterson Methodist Episcopal Church was included in the St. Charles circuit from 1872, when the first church was built at a cost of $1,600, until about 1907.  A new church building was erected in 1914 for $4,000.  The bell from the old building was placed in the new belfry.

From among the earlier records now available, W. W. Williams was listed as pastor in 1894, followed by T. W. Evan in 1895.  Others who had charge of the church for longer periods of time during their first few decades of the 1900s were:  M. J. Rarick, Arthur Eastman, L. W. Warner, D. F. Goddard, W. Frank Lister, W. M. Scheuermann and Frank Moore.

At various times since 1907, the Patterson church was included in the pastorate with Wick, Union Chapel, or Peru, and again, at the present time, with St. Charles.

On February 5, 1962, the Patterson Methodist Church received from the Iowa Christian Rural Institute an award for merit as an outstanding rural Church.  William Trembly was pastor at that time.  Other more recent pastors are Eldon Kaworth, Howard Cho (a Korean), and in 1964-66, Leonard Root.

Patterson United Methodist Church

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