Asbury United Methodist Church began as Wilmington Manor Methodist Church in 1945, after first meeting in a Roller Skating Rink near where Wilmington University is today. The first church was built across Route 40, on a spot presently occupied by Season’s Pizza. After outgrowing our initial church building, the church relocated in 1957 to its present location at the intersection of 141 (Basin Road) and 40, and changed our name to Asbury, taking the name and legacy of the first Methodist Church in the city of Wilmington.

Throughout our 70-year history, the people of Asbury Church have celebrated, and continue to celebrate, a faith in Jesus Christ lived out among our neighbors in both good times and bad. We enjoy serving and helping others in the name and spirit of Christ as much as we enjoy celebrating (or dramatizing, or singing about) the Good News of Jesus in worship.