About Us

On October 8, 1903, the church was organized as Dunwoody Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Just over a month later, 31 people had joined the tiny one-room church. Zedekiah Speer became its first pastor and only paid employee. He was a circuit minister and delivered sermons every fourth Sunday.

In 1935, Eull Spruill donated a team of mules and laborers to excavate the site of the new church on property across the street from the one-room building. Construction was completed in 1941. Today, this “new” church serves as our Chapel. In 1950, 60 members came together to build a new three-bedroom parsonage in just nine hours. A Fellowship Hall, education wing and youth activity building were added to the campus in 1964.

Membership continued to grow, with 2,000 members on the church role by the late 1960s. The third Sanctuary came in 1972 when a modern 750-seat Sanctuary was built adjacent to the Chapel. Thanks to a generous gift from the family of Stephen Thomas Spruill, the Chapel was totally renovated in 1977 and today serves as an intimate worship setting.

As the congregation and Dunwoody grew, so did Dunwoody United Methodist Church. After renovations in the 1980s and 90s, the sanctuary underwent a significant redesign in 2018 that allows for both traditional and contemporary worship to be held in the same space. Today, over 5,000 people call Dunwoody UMC their church home.