Boat church is at 9:00 am every sunday

Memorial Day through Labor Day Weekend

Started in 1972, Boat Church is a wonderful place to worship. You do not need a boat for Boat Church, you can sit on benches at the boathouse or bring a chair and sit on the shore. The service generally lasts for 30 minutes so that you will have time to get back to town for Sunday School.

The history of this unique worship experience is interesting. In 1972, Rev. Hal Brady and several other church leaders began to talk about how people in general spent their leisure time.  Our discussion progressed to the point of taking some sort of action through our church and through the Rabun Methodist Ministerial group. Rev. Brady obtained a list of names and addresses from the Lake Rabun Association, which became the key ingredient in the Lake Rabun ministry. Things began to come together when we found an old barge. It was nothing more than four old oil cans with a few boards strapped to the top.  A small motor was mounted to the back of it. We rigged up a PA system by using a car battery.  It was real crude.  A sing was painted for the barge and our ministry was originally called “THE FISHERMAN."  Our youth group became the “choir, since we had some terrific young people who had good voices. One of the kids was also excellent on the guitar. Betty and Guy Hall donated their boat house for folks who wanted to come to the services but wanted to come on foot.  Plans were to start on that first Memorial Day weekend in 1972. It was truly a miracle that first morning, to see so many people come to that first service. We thought 20 would be great, more than 130 people came that first morning!