Green Street United Methodist Church began with a tent revival outside Old Salem in August 1902. A month later, a group of converts organized themselves as Salem Methodist Episcopal Church and built a wood frame church in the West Salem neighborhood. Some 20 years later, a brick sanctuary was built at the present location, and the congregation was renamed Green Street Methodist. In the 1960s, the congregation began a long steady loss of members. The West Salem neighborhood became racially diverse and many charter residents moved away from the city. At one point in the late 1990s, Sunday morning attendance dipped to 15 people. A group of people, who called themselves “the remnant,” remained and re-visioned the church, opening the doors wide to embrace the community around them.