Tyler United Methodist Church

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Tyler United Methodist Church was a moderately sized brick building with a tall steeple which had been built about 1917.

It had a seating capacity of about 120 though no one could remember it being filled to capacity.

The Fellowship Hall next to the church was a nondescript cinder-block building dating from the fifties.CR3

Tyler United Methodist Church shares a pastor with Conestoga Methodist Church, which is 21 miles away. The Sunday service at Conestoga starts at 8am so the pastor has time to go to Tyler for their 11am service.CR2

Previously pastored by Craig Howell for 13 yearsCR2 then most recently by Darius Anders for about a year,CR3 the two churches were Reverend Nanci Chladek's first pastorate when she graduated from Hickory Run Methodist Seminary.