Ruhl's Church began as a House Church about 1839. The house is on the Kline farm and to the right after you cross the Big Chickies Creek going north. The early founders of the church were John and Philip Ruhl. In this house, services were conducted by appointed preachers traveling the Lancaster Circuit. Both Philip and John Ruhl were strong Gospel preachers. Services were conducted every six weeks at first and later monthly. By the time the first church was erected, services were held on alternate weeks. During the summer, services were often conducted in the barn. Harvest meetings drew large congregations from the community. By the year 1867 the class member had grown to 45 and since preparing the house for worship entailed much extra work, and other churches in the community had places used for worship only, the Ruhl's class gave serious thought to the erection of a special place of worship.

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A new church building built on the present site was completed in April of 1958 with approximately 350 membership. It was made possible by a donation of $25,000 from Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Brubaker and a $25,000 annunity. In 1968, the General Conference again merged the Evangelical United Brethren and the Methodist Churches, thus our name became Ruhl's United Methodist Church. At present our church is in the process of leaving the UMC through the methodology of litigation. We are now known as Ruhl's Church.