Information Sheet

 

 

R         Methodist Episcopal Church, South.  Southwest Missouri Conference.

636         Joplin District.  Jasper Circuit (Jasper County, Mo.).

                        Records, ca. 1919-1967, bulk 1919-1925.

                                    Two folders, photocopies.

 

 

 

These are records of the Jasper Circuit in the Joplin District of the Southwest Missouri Con­ference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South.  Included are a Quarterly Conference Record of the Jasper Circuit, 1919-1923, and miscellaneous papers, 1919-1967.

 

The Jasper Circuit (or Charge) was initially composed of the Barton, Jasper, Lebanon, and Salem Methodist churches in Jasper County, Missouri.  Originally part of the Joplin District of the Southwest Missouri Conference, by 1925 it was in the Nevada District of the same confer­ence.

 

The Quarterly Conference Record in Folder 1 contains minutes of meetings in 1919-1923.  The records include brief reports on the condition of the churches, Christian education, and Sun­day schools.  Folder 2 contains minutes of quarterly conferences for 1919-1925, with attached re­ports on changes in membership, Sunday schools, the Epworth Leagues, and missions.   The folder also includes a few materials on the Salem Church, 1960-1967.  By that date, the Joplin District, to which the church still belonged, was part of the West Missouri Conference.

 

 

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