DANCYVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
HOMECOMING, SEPTEMBER 18,2011

Paul Lore, Pastor

Ryan Pattat, Song Leader

Ben Bruce, Organist Cindy Pattat, Pianist

The Prelude

Welcome & Announcements Paul Lore

Cemetery Report Mary Kay Dancy Smith

Invocation

*Hymn Joyful. Joyful. We Adore Thee 89

*Affirmation of Faith The Apostle's Creed

*Gloria Patri

Responsive Reading 754

Special Music Ben Bruce - Organ

Hymn Blessed Assurance 369

Silent Meditation & Pastoral Prayer/Lord's Prayer

Special Music Barbara Garnett- Hammered Dulcimer

Offering of Gifts and Tithes for the Cemetery Fund

*Doxology

Special Music Shiloh Ladies Trio

Hymn Leaning on the Everlasting Arms 133

Introduction of Speaker                          Tyrrell Jones Bond

Homecoming Message                              Rev. Joe Piercey

Service of Communion                                               Pastors

*Closing Hymn On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand       724

*Benediction and Prayer for Noon Meal

*Postlude

*Please Stand

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WELCOME TO DANCYVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Please see the Historical Sunday School Records and the Cemetery Records in the Elementary Sunday School Room and the gates are open for your convenience to visit the Cemetery.

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Please sign our Guest Book and Update your address if necessary.

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Following the morning worship service, everyone is invited to join us for dinner to be served in the basement Fellowship Hall. Seating is available on the church grounds and throughout the church.

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Our Sincere Thanks to those that were so helpful in preparing for our service today, especially members of Stanton United Methodis Church, Shiloh United Methodist Church and Spring Hill United Methodist Church

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Cover art used by permission of the artist, Jack Dawson.

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Visit the Dancyville web site: www.Dancvville.net Maintained by Mary Kay Dancy Smith and James K. Dancy

DANCYVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY
Board of Directors

Mary Kay Dancy Smith        -      Chairman
Dianne Crawford    -     Secretary-Treasurer
Atan Bragg                                                Joyce Moore
Virginia Ann Beard Walker           Sue Mann McPhail
Tyrrell Jones Bond                                  Grace Switzer
Martha Crawford                                        Sam Tinsley
Jody Moore                                               Mike Young

The Deed to the church is dated April 1, 1835, and was registered on June
8, 1835. The congregation was organized and the first building, which was
a log structure, was built in 1837.
In 1850, the log building was replaced by the one, which is in use today,
which is in the Greek revival style. It is made of hand-hewn and hand-
sawed timber cut on the grounds. The structure is a single-story gable-
roofed sanctuary and is constructed with a post and timber frame and
covered with wide weatherboard, which was cut with slash saws. The
church is one of the rare survivors of the antebellum church structure in the
rural portion of West Tennessee. The front fagade features the traditional
pair of entrance doors - one for men and the other for women parishioners,
each topped by an original four-light transom. The shutters are original to
the building as well as many of the windowpanes. The church survives as
the oldest Methodist Church building in West Tennessee.
The church record book has been in use since 1896 and the Sunday
school record books date back to 1837.
The communion set was purchased in the early 1890s.
The pulpit stand is hand-made and is over 100 years old.
The Rogers family gave the cross in memory of their parents.
Wayne and Max Hightower gave the painting in the vestibule in memory of
their mother, Grace Moore Hightower.
The basement containing a kitchen, fellowship hall and rest rooms was
added in the 1950s.
The cemetery dates back to 1830 and along with the church is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
The fence around the cemetery was erected ca. 1908-1909 at a cost of
$900.00 and replaced a wooden picket fence.

Burials:
1 War of 1812 Veteran
15 Confederate War Veterans
1 Spanish-American Veteran
7 World War I Veterans
16 World War II Veterans
1 Slave
1 Gypsy