Church History:

 

In June of 1994, Bruce, Susan, Mandy and Ben Taylor moved to Madison to begin a new United Methodist Church. With no people, no land, no building, and not even an office from which to work, Bruce began knocking on doors across the Madison/Ridgeland area and found a few families interested in the possibility of creating a new congregation. Thirteen people worshipped together in the first service held at the Taylor home on August 3, 1994.  The group continued to grow, meeting in the Taylor home until the first official worship service on January 15, 1995 at the Madison Central High School Field House.  A great crowd of 119 people worshipped together that day.

In December 1994, eight acres of land was purchased on Highland Colony Parkway and a master plan for future buildings was developed to be phased in as the church grows. On April 9, 1995 , PHUMC was officially named and constituted as a United Methodist Church and fifty-four people became the first full members of the congregation with twenty children on the preparatory roll. The stained glass windows in our buildings were acquired from Capitol Street United Methodist Church in Jackson in 1996 and incorporated into the church's master plan.

On August 3, 1997, the third anniversary of the very first meeting in the Taylor home, a groundbreaking service for the Worship Center was held and less than two years later, on April 18, 1999, PHUMC held its first service in the Worship Center moving from Madison Central High School into its permanent home on Highland Colony Parkway.  Not long after this initial service the second phase of the Master plan had begun. 

In November 2003, Phase 2 construction of an Education/Administration Building was completed. It contains Sunday School classrooms, youth classrooms, a choir rehearsal room, pastoral and staff offices, an elevator, and the Parlor.  The original office space in the Worship Center building has been converted to an large kitchen and food service facility.

After serving Parkway Hills from its founding, Rev. Bruce Taylor was appointed to Pascagoula First United Methodist Church in late summer 2004 and Rev. Richard Robbins became PHUMC's Senior Pastor.

We are a vibrant growing church with new programs being added as needs arise. Today we have over 695 full members, over 100 constituent members and approximately 200 children on our preparatory roll. God continues to bless our church as we strive to be His Church in our community.

We invite you to join us for any of our worship services and ministry activities as we, in the words of our unofficial motto say 'do best the things we do together.'