for our area. Two ministers, John Sharp and Russell Wingert left from our congregation to serve as chaplains in the army in WWI, and WWII respectively. Between the years of 1968-1975 the church donated the use of buildings and facilities, rent free, to the Satellite Day Care for retarded children. Our present minister, Murray Travis, has been outstanding in community service, was elected "Man of the Year," was president of Rotary Club, Chairman of United Way Fund Drive, and is now one of the directors of Driskill Halfway House.

RED HILL METHODIST CHURCH
The Red Hill Methodist Episcopal Church South was organized about 1900. A church was never built but worship was conducted in the school house after it was built, seventeen miles northeast of Tuna and five miles South­west of Vigo Park.

In the fall of 1911 a preacher named Wadell was

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preaching at Red Hill. He brought a former Christian church member turned Methodist with him. He was a young man and well liked in the community. He explained that the Red Hill Methodist Church would take anyone into the church and give him a church home where the church of his choice was not in the locality. So, although there were not enough Methodist to forma church, there were enough Christians of various and congenial denominations to form one.