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English: Church denomination and name

Mt. Tabor church was organized in 1858 by Rev. John Adams, a Methodist minister and local landowner. He organized and served a circuit of churches in the surrounding counties. The Methodist Church was often called the Methodist Episcopal Church in its early days in this country. The Episcopal simply referred to the fact that bishops governed them. The Mt. Tabor church became part of the Lerna Methodist circuit, which provided the preachers for the church.

In 1959 the church members split over the issue of building a basement and building an additional room to the church. Some of the members went to the Farmington Church after the Methodist Conference stated that they would only approve the addition if a certain percentage of the cost of the building were raised prior to the ground breaking. Sunday school continued to be held at the church until 1967. The church remained under the conference until March 10, 1970 when the conference released the Board of Trustees from any further connections.

Mt. Tabor is a mountain range in Palestine and only used a couple of times in the Scripture. It is believed that the church is named from this Scripture.