Santa Fe heard its first Methodist Episcopal Church preacher in 1850, but a congregation was not organized until 1880. Since then the church has inhabited three buildings. More importantly it has produced leaders for both the denomination and the community and has carried out its mission through education, hunger ministries, a prison ministry, and many other ways.

Historical summary...

In October 1850 the Reverend E. G. Nicholson, Independence, Missouri, arrived via the Santa Fe Trail to preach the first Methodist sermon in Santa Fe. Nicholson was a clergy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Another Methodist preacher, the Reverend Benigne Cardenas, preached the first Methodist sermon in Spanish on November 10, 1853, on the plaza, and the first converts to Methodism in New Mexico were baptized at that time.

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