Solebury United Methodist Church traces its earliest roots to the year 1818 when an interdenominational Sunday school was founded in New Hope by Reverend Thomas Dunn and laywoman Rebecca Ingham, to teach literacy skills and the Bible to poor children. The school became the spiritual foundation for several area congregations. In 1872, the school erected a chapel in New Hope for the program that in 1893 was chartered as the New Hope Presbyterian Church. That congregation served the community until 1970 when it merged with the New Hope United Methodist Church. Its former building is now occupied by the New Hope Free Library.

Early Methodist circuit riding preachers organized the first societies in the area in the 1820s and 1830s near Lumberville among the Bissey and Eisenbrey families who became the nucleus of the Lumberville United Methodist Church. A first house of worship was built in 1836 on the river side of River Road and a second house of worship was built in 1869 across the street. In 1992, the Lumberville United Methodist Church merged with the New Hope United Methodist Church congregation downriver forming the New Hope-Lumberville United Methodist Church.

In 1830, a Methodist society was formed in the home of New Hope residents Samuel and Mary Sutton. A simple meeting house was constructed on Mechanic Street in 1837. In 1874, a large stone church was constructed on Main Street where our congregation worshiped until 1999. That year, we broke ground for the first of three proposed buildings on our present site. Our current facility was completed and dedicated in February 2000 and we changed our name to Solebury United Methodist Church. We hope to begin construction of Phase 2, the permanent sanctuary, in the near future.

The Solebury United Methodist Church enjoys a heritage of Christian witness and community service extending back more than 180 years. We invited you to join with us as we seek to serve Christ and the people of the New Hope-Solebury area for many years to come.