Staff report

The Buda United Methodist Church is celebrating its 140th anniversary , and the Hays County Commissioners court honored that wlth a proclamation honoring its long history of worship and service to the community.

According to the proclamation, the precursor of the current church was the first organized in the new settlement of DuPre (now called Buda). Thomas Garrett is recognized as its first pastor in 1880.

Two years later,  city block was purchased for the first church building, an...