WHERE IS IT?

Citizens Journal-Sun

This highly circular and smooth design is located on a community building here in Cass County. It is made of metal and is a pleasant blue in color. It has a cross at its center and so obviously has something to do with church.

Do you know what this blue circular symbol is? Where is it and why? The photographer didn’t when he passed by this symbol. So the idea came to use it as the Where Is It? mystery puzzle. One hint. It’s attached to the Law’s Chapel Methodist Church. The answer following, along with two historic designations, makes this church one of the most recognized in the area.

The cross and three circles is the logo of the Global Methodist Church. The Global Methodist Church was created after a division in the United Methodist Church. Congregations left the UMC believing it had become too liberal in drifting away from orthodoxy. The GM Church also opposed recognition of same-sex marriage and the ordination of non-celibate gay clergy. The church allows both women and men to serve as clergy. As of 2024, the church is composed of nearly 4,500 congregations and a similar number of pastors.

The Law’s Chapel Global Methodist Church has a distinguished history as indicated by its two historical medallions as pictured here.

One is for the Law’s Chapel Methodist Church and is an official Texas Historical Landmark. This is for being one of the oldest Protestant churches in the area, as founded in 1853.

The second medallion is for the Law’s Chapel Cemetery, an Historic Texas Cemetery. Originally a family cemetery, the burial ground began upon the death of Henry G. Law (1813-1854) son of George and Martha Law who moved here from Georgia.

The third picture shows today’s Law’s Chapel Methodist Church close to its cemetery on Farm to Market 2328.