Agenda, founded in 1891, is still an active church as of this writing (2018). It is located on Fourth Street in Agenda, Kansas, in the Salina UMC district of the Great Plains conference. The first Methodist Episcopal Church at Agenda was chartered August 29, 1891. The church was built in 1892-1893 at a cost of about $1800 and was dedicated July 1893. The first pastor was Rev. D. A. Allen. Before the construction of the church, meetings had been held in the schoolhouse at Pentico, one-half mile west of Agenda. The church was elevated in 1908-1909 so that a basement could be dug underneath it. At some point before 1917, the Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Protestant churches of Agenda united to form the Federated Community Church with services in the M.E. church building. In June 1925, on the day that new minister Rev. Manning of Oregon arrived, the church was struck by lightning and completely destroyed. Only the piano and the furnace were saved. It is thought that in about 1927 the Federated Community Church became a Methodist Episcopal Church. After seven years of financial difficulties (and the holding of services in the high school auditorium), the new church was built on the previous church’s basement walls; it was dedicated on March 12, 1933. In 1939 came the merger of the Methodist Episcopal North, Methodist Episcopal South, and Methodist Protestant to become the Methodist Church; in 1968 the Evangelical United Brethren joined the Methodist Dhurch to become the United Methodist Church. The parsonage, southeast of the church, was rented to ministers from 1924 to 1940, after which the minister no longer lived in Agenda.

Note written by Sarah St. John