History of Langley United Church

In the early 1920s, Langley Prairie Methodists attended their denomination's church at Milner, while their Presbyterian friends went to their church at Murrayville's Five Corners.

The situation improved in 1925, when the two denominations joined with the Congregational Church to form the United Church of Canada. A United Church congregation formed in 1927, and services were initially held in a building known as the "Free to All Sunday School Building," on Glover Road. Early in 1930, the congregation decided to build a church of its own. Land was secured on the north side of New McLellan Road (56th Ave), at a cost of $200.00, in what was then a residential neighbourhood.

It was one thing to obtain the land; building a church when the community was in the grasp of the Great Depression was quite another. The congregation rallied, and the new church was built, almost in its entirety, by volunteer effort. Initially named the Langley Prairie United Church, during its early years (1930-50), the church continued to be part of the Murrayville charge. In 1950, the congregation requested the Westminster Presbytery to establish Langley Prairie as a separate charge. The request was granted, and Rev. J.C. Cinnamon became its first resident minister.

By the early 1970s, the congregation began to discuss the need for a new church. A site, on 200th Street, north of 56th Avenue, was acquired in 1974, but it was not until 1976 that the new church was built. Even this new facility proved inadequate. An extension to the church hall was accordingly added in 1991.