Walker United Methodist Church was located at 30102 Stump Street, Walker, Louisiana. In 2017, Corbin United Methodist Church merged with Walker United Methodist Church.

Walker United Methodist Church began in 1840, William S. Townsend donated six acres of land for the establishment of a church. He gave the Louisiana Conference the title to the land in 1842. An arbor made of palmetto leaves was constructed and called Union Church, since Methodist, Baptists, and the Holiness worshipped there. In 1858, cutting of lumber for a new church began at Capt. Thomas Gibbens’ sawmill in Port Vincent. He cut the wood with a pit saw and dressed the lumber by hand. The church was built near the cemetery and was named Palmetto Methodist Church. It was used from 1860 to 1900. In 1900, the church received its first Conference minister. Rev. Cargill made the trip from Denham Springs, where he lived. By 1911, the church had 92 members. In 1917, the old church was torn down and a new one built on the same site. Lamp shelves on the side walls held kerosene lamps to illuminate the church. In 1928, the Conference allowed the church to move from the cemetery site to the present site, and the church became the Walker Methodist Episcopal Church, South. A new church was built in 1930 at a cost of $4,500. The parsonage at the old cemetery site was still used for a time. The church bell is said to come from an abandoned church in the Frost community. In 1960, fundraising began towards a new church. After the existing church was damaged by Hurricane Betsy in 1965, work began on the new church. It was completed on October 8, 1967. The church was dedicated on June 16, 1974, with Bishop Finis Crutchfield giving the message. A steeple was added to the church in 1987. A new parsonage was bought at the corner of Stump Street and Wildcat Drive in the early 1970s.

Corbin United Methodist Church was located at 30100 Mayer Street, Corbin, Louisiana. Corbin United Methodist Church began when a group of people who lived in the Corbin area (and had been attending the Walker Church) decided to form a church of their own in 1963. Corbin was a railroad town that had earlier been annexed by Walker. Members met at Juanita Jackson’s garage until a church could be built. Services were held “at the crack of dawn”, since that was the only time Rev. Ted Howes from Denham Springs could make it. Sunday school was held in the rooms of her house following the service. Prayer meetings were held in the garage on Wednesday evenings. A call was sent out for a pastor willing to organize the fledgling congregation. They asked that whoever wished to serve the church had to have his own home as the church since they still did not have a church or parsonage. Rev. Art Meinke, a lay minister at Live Oak Methodist Church, accepted the role as leader of the Corbin congregation. Glenn and Walter Coburn donated a piece of property for the new church, and the clearing of the land began on June 23, 1963. Construction began on November 3, 1963 and was completed in less than 2 months. The first service in the new church was held on January 1, 1964. The Sam Davidson Construction Company, which had built the church, donated a communion table and folding chairs to the congregation.

Walker United Methodist Church (Walker, La.) closed in 2019.

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), pages BR-18, BR-79.