The history of Methodism in Dyer has been a long and exciting one. In 1817, a transcation between the United States Government and the Chickasaw Indians, known as "The Jackson Purchase" was made. It opened thousands of acres of land to settlers.

In 1823, the country now known as Gibson was defined. In 1858, the G. M. & O. Railroad laid tracks from Jackson, Tennessee, to Union City, Tennessee. A point on this track some seven miles north of Trenton became known as Peck's Switch. It served as a loading and unloading point for goods for the surrounding fertile farm area. Since the grown town of Dyersburg was without a railroad at the time, Peck's Switch came to be known as Dyer Station, as materials en route to and from Dyersburg were received and shipped there.

Near the close of the Civil War, a group of faithful Methodists in Dyer Station organized the first Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and called it Mount Pleasant. A log building was erected about a mile east of the current downtown.

In 1867, the Masons and the Methodists build the Dyer Station Academy. This private school was located on the site of the present Dyer Elementary School. In 1870, the Methodist congregation moved to town and worshiped in the Academy building until 1873, when they built a small frame church on a lot in southwest Dyer now owned by the Dyer Church of Christ. The trustees were: William Timmins, J. L. Berry, A. B. Crenshaw, J. M. Hutchison, and W. T. Baird.

In 1873, the Memphis Conference appointed the Rev. M. M. Taylor as pastor. At that time Dyer was on the Yorkville Circuit. Later it was placed on the Kenton Circuit, and then on the Rutherford Circuit (composed of Dyer, Rutherford, Kenton, and Good Hope). In 1889, the Dyer Circuit was formed (composed of Dyer, Poplar Grove, Good Hope, and Hopewell). Each church had services once a month.

On June 8, 1877, the Dyer Church purchased one and one-half acres of land for a cemetery. This was the beginning of the present Oakwood Cemetery.

On August 29, 1888, the Trustees (J. L. Berry, A. M. Kellly, F. M. Snoddy, Henry Thompson, and T. Vaught) bought from J. M. Coulter the lot where the present Church Sanctuary now stands and a brick building was erected. On November 2, 1888, the old church building and lot, where the Church of Christ now stands, was sold to R. E. Griggs.

In 1889, the circuit built a parsonage which was located on the lot where the present education building is now located.

The Dyer Church continued as part of the Dyer Circuit until the Annual Conference of 1899, when it was made a station charge with W. W. Armstrong as the first station preacher. The Dyer Church bought the parsonage from the circuit.

In 1906, the church bought a house across the street just North of the church building as a parsonage and moved the old parsonage to a vacant lot just north of the newly acquired house. Also in 1906, the present Church Sanctuary was constructed, and additional land was purchased north of the sanctuary. The trustees were W. S. Coulter, J. W. Davidson, J. L. Berry, J. M. Evins, E. T. Meade, E. E. Hutchison, S. W. McCullough, A. M. Kelly, and G. F. Russell. The pastor was W. J. Carlton.

In 1925, the trustees (G. F. Russell, H. D. Hayes, A. N. Carne, Dr. John Jackson, W. L. Baldridge, and Dr. G. I. Freeland) swapped the parsonage for another located on Broad Street, a block west of the church.

On April 3, 1944 the church trustees (G. W. Marrs, J. R. Baldridge, J. A. Baird, R. L. Quaries, J. B. Hall, W. R. Griffin, and C. C. Berry) purchased land East of the church building from the G. M. & O. Railroad. In 1948, the present education building was built under the leadership of the Rev. J. Mack Jenkins at a cost of $35,000. The building committee was composed of C. C. Berry, Dr. F. Douglas, and G. W. Marrs.

In 1968, under the leadership of the Rev. David M. Hilliard, Jr., a new parsonage was built at 257 Division Street. The kitchen and the fellowship hall in the Annex were also remodeled at that time.

The above history of the church is taken from the Church Directory of 1991.