The members of the Wesley Methodist, first called the Norwegian-Danish Methodist Church, met in the Academy of Music, located over the Frostad Plumbing Shop.

The wife of Mathias Olson requested the Reverend Asle Knutson, District Superintendent of the Red River District, to come to Valley City to organize a church among those Norwegians and Danes receptive to the Methodist church. Accordingly, after a series of meetings, a church was duly organized in 1893. The first members were the Meldahls, Olsons, Kings, Myers, Brudevolds, Bergreens, Wolds, Guldlins, Gulbrondsons, Jacobsons, Davidsons and Moes.

Mathias Olson donated a lot located on the corner west of the Baptist church and a small church was built. The first resident pastor was Rev. A. M. Tilstad. Under his guidance a Sunday School was started. During 1900-1903 a parsonage was built south of the church and a basement was put under the church.

Norwegian was spoken until 1938 when the church name was changed to Wesley Methodist.

As time went on, the church family became smaller and it became rather difficult to maintain a church building and pay the salary of a resident pastor. At the invitation of the Valley City Epworth Episcopal Methodist Church, the Wesley Methodist Church congregation voted to sell its properties and join the larger Methodist church. The proceeds from the sale of the property was used to build a modern parsonage, and a large painting entitled "Christ at Heart's Door" was transferred from the old church to a prominent place in the adopted church. This picture has been placed in the new Epworth United Methodist Church on eighth Avenue South and occupies a special spot in the hearts of the descendants of the organizers of the old Norwegian-Danish Methodist Church.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 305