Stranger Community Church
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The present Stranger Community Church is composed of two buildings from congregations established in 1869 as the Liberty Baptist Church and the Methodist-Presbyterian Union Church.

The three denominations took turns supplying the pastor, while holding services in the appropriate building. Baylor University supplied most of the young Baptist student preachers until Baylor quit the program. Presbyterians called their ministers,and Methodists were appointed theirs by their board.

Because of a difference in church doctrine over open or closed communion, Presbyterians transferred their membership to the newly established Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Fairview. The Methodists continued to operate their church.

In 1910 after the schools had been closed in 1905, Presbyterians were invited to return to worship at Stranger and the differences with the Baptists were compromised by resuming rotation of Church Sundays. Baptists were baptized in a stock pond, while the others were sprinkled.

The Union building saw major renovations to the interior in 1987 when the stained-glass windows from the Fairview Church were donated. In 1989, a bequeath from Mrs. T. Miller Smith allowed the establishment for a permanent building maintenance fund.

 

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