Mangham United Methodist Church (Mangham, La.) is located at 508 Main Street, Mangham, Louisiana.

The church was organized in the fall of 1903. Rev. Brown arrived in town with a shotgun and a suitcase. He got permission from two Baptists to hold evening services at the Baptist church. When another member of that church heard that a Methodist preacher would be holding services, he put out the fire in the heater and locked the door. So the Methodist pastor began holding services at the schoolhouse.

A congregation soon formed. On November 15, 1904, Mr. R.S. Hardesty and Mr. J.G. McCormick donated a lot and a church was built. The first preacher assigned to the church was Rev. W.H. Hatfield in December 1905.

A 1928 storm caused the church to lean to one side. The church members propped it up with poles. A few months later, another storm caused the church to lean in the opposite direction. The congregation decided to move the church. They did so, and the church opened at its current site on July 29, 1938.

Under the leadership of Rev. Lael Jones, the Fred Jones Fellowship Hall was built behind the church. It opened on December 14, 1958.

A lighted steeple was added to the church in January 2003. It was given in memory of Ervin and Mary Reeves by Frank and Anna Etier and Johnnie and Lorraine Etier.

Mangham United Methodist Church disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church in 2022.

Source: Timothy Hebert, “The Historical Register of the Louisiana Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church,” (Louisiana: Louisiana Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, 2004), page MO-51.