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Philips Fork-Kelly Rock UMC

Stoney Fork UMC
Pastor: Rev. Robert Gross

Current Ministry
Sunday
11:00 AM - Worship

About our church
Stoney Fork UMC was organized in the early 1950's as a part of the Evangelical United Brethren Church with the assistance of stone masons from Kansas. It became a United Methodist Church in 1968, with the union of the EUB and Methodist churches. It is a beacon of God's light on a hill in the Stoney Fork community. Stoney Fork shut down and didn't have any services in three years. Robert Gross with the help of Chad's Hope (a Christian drug rehab in Clay County ) and the Centenary UMC in Danville, KY, worked hard to clean the church. Now the church is looking great and has a new fellowship hall remodel.

Transforming lives...transforming communities
J.D. has been a part of the Stoney Fork UMC most of his life. He is now in his late twenty's, and is a regular attendee at worship and other events in the life of the church. J.D. is what some people would call "special". I have come to understand that J.D. is special-he is a child of God and full of His love. J.D. testifies, sings, prays, and participates in many ways in the life of Stoney Fork UMC. J.D. approached one day and asked me about being baptized. He said, "I visit a lot of churches, and I don't feel accepted anywhere as much as I do here. It is here that I feel God's love. Everywhere else people seem to be judgmental." So, we set a date in August and met at the Church parsonage, which is also the site of "the hole"-the traditional baptizing spot in the community. J.D. and I steeped into the creek, he was baptized, and then those gathered from Stoney Fork sang "I'll Fly Away". It is because of the people of Stoney Fork UMC, and their commitment to the love of God, that J.D. made a public profession of faith and was baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Spirit.