Summerfield United Methodist Church

Summerfield United Methodist Church is located in the historic Juneautown (East Town) neighborhood of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

[1] Part of the United Methodist Church (UMC), Summerfield has established several community missions and promotes social justice.

[2] In 1854 members of the Summerfield congregation joined with the abolitionist Sherman Booth and broke into a Milwaukee jail to free escaped slave Joshua Glover.

In 1869, the first Women's Foreign Missionary Society in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, and the second in the United States, was organized at Summerfield.

[2] On January 19, 2014 the congregation of Fe Hispanic Ministry UMC began sharing worship space at Summerfield, bringing services in Spanish to the church.