Our hope is that you will experience the grace that inspired our name and motivates our ministries through this website, attending worship, and putting your hands and heart into action through mission service. We actively welcome your presence, your questions, your thoughts, and your choice to journey with us in faith at this place called Grace!
We are a congregation celebrating 160 years of growing in faith and discipleship and serving in mission with our community and world.
Grace is proud to be a three-campus congregation. Our Ridgeview campus is home to the majority of our worship gatherings, main offices, Kids Place at Grace preschool, and many other ministries for persons of all ages. This is what you might think of a traditional “church” campus, although we believe it’s just one part of what our ministry has to offer the community.
Our Center of Grace campus in downtown Olathe hosts our hands-on mission and educational outreach programs with and for southern Johnson County, including community dinners, a clothing closet, ELL classes, and the Boys & Girls Club. The love that we receive from God and one another at our worship campuses informs and inspires our work at the Center of Grace, and we are so pleased and proud of the amazing things that happen here every day.
Last Fall we launched Common Grace, an extension campus aimed at building community in fast-growing Southwest Johnson County. We look forward to all that God is preparing to do in and through this new adventure!
In 1858, a group of Southern Methodists, meeting in each other’s homes, began the Methodist Church of Olathe. In 1869 church members raised money to purchase property at the corner of Cherry and Loula streets where the Methodist Episcopal Church of Olathe was built. This white frame building was remodeled twice, in 1892 and 1907.
With continued growth, a new red brick structure was built on the same site and edicated on June 3, 1917. This building served the congregation and community well for many years. Harsh weather conditions over time damaged the walls and foundations and sections of the building were eventually condemned.
Grace is a vibrant, spirit-filled United Methodist Church seeking to live out its vision of Loving God, Living like Jesus, and Serving the World.
