Our Mission... To experience God's love through worship, discipleship and fellowship as we share God's love through missions, evangelism and compassion. Sugar Hill UMC....   In The Beginning... In 1991, Dr. Herbert Benjamin Wren, thinking he would like to preach in small area churches when he retired from the practice of surgery, and knowing that preaching required a license, began a correspondence course ~~ his first step in earning one.  His wife, Jean, worked beside her husband as they did the year-long lessons under the supervision of a local ordained minister.   In May of 1992, the Wrens were asked by the Bishop to start a mission church in north Texarkana on ten acres of land on Sugar Hill Road.  Herb was to be the pastor of the North Mission Church ~~ a church which was nonexistent.  After intensive study at Hendrix College in Conway, Herb was licensed to preach. Visitation, Disciple Bible Study in homes, a seminar for new pastors, and much planning continued.  Though many of the families that were visited by the nucleus group were friendly and interested in hearing about North Mission Church, none really wanted to make a commitment until they knew that services were actually starting. The Wrens and the nucleus group supporting them visited many churches in their efforts to choose church format and music.  They visited restaurants, motels, funeral homes and theaters as they searched for a place to hold services.  At last they chose the Convention Center of Best Western Northgave Motel.  They rented one half of the center for the first service which was to be held on March 21, 1993.    The day finally came, and so did the people!  Extra chairs were brought in, doors dividing the center were opened, and at final count there were 186 in attendance.  Seventeen of them became members of North Mission Church that morning.  Jean and Herb were so excited and terrified that afterward they could not remember who had joined!  Herb has never forgotten that exciting time in the church history.    The Holy Spirit actively moved in the hearts of many who became members of North Mission Church, which in May of 1993 was renamed Sugar Hill United Methodist Church at the first organizational meeting of the church.  The holy Spirit remains with the family of God that makes up the body of Sugar Hill UMC.  How blessed we are that Jean and Herb Wren heard the Spirit's voice and answered, "Here we are, Lord.  Use us!"

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